SACD Newsletter

March 2022

SACD in Copenhagen: Denmark’s policies should not serve Russia’s agenda in Syria

The Syrian Association for Citizens’ Dignity organized a press conference, in collaboration with Refugees Welcome, in the Danish capital Copenhagen with the participation of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty Denmark.

The press conference discussed the recent reports documenting the harsh reality in Syria to which refugees are supposed to return, the condemnations of the Danish Immigration Service’s report by experts who provided information for it and the implications of the policy for other countries hosting Syrian refugees, such as Lebanon, and the possible long-term consequences of premature return, including further displacement of even larger numbers of Syrians. Read SACD’s full statement here 

Eleven years later: displaced Syrians insist on their struggle for a free and safe Syria

After more than a decade of peaceful demonstrations in Syria calling for freedom and dignity and eventually demands to overthrow the regime, the struggle of the Syrians continues despite being subjected to repression, killing, torture, and war crimes that have killed at least half a million Syrians and have displaced more than half of the Syrian people.

On the anniversary of the start of the peaceful demonstrations and civil struggle in Syria, the displaced Syrians demand the international community to give them what they have given the Ukrainian people: support and humane treatment.

Rage at Russia comes late, as Syrians saw it coming for years

As the world obsessively looks on in horror while the largest conflict on European soil since World War II unfolds, Syrians mostly feel tired. Many wonder what it would have taken to get the same attention for the killings and human rights abuses that served as a training ground for the aggressors and trial runs for their weapons.

If Russia's aggression is to be addressed successfully in Ukraine, it also has to be addressed where it began – in Syria. Without this, it is just a matter of time and place when and where it will spread.