The National Salvation Front rejects "theatrical elections" in Syria

Akhbar al-Sharq – London: The Syrian National Salvation Front described the upcoming elections in the country as a "play" and declared its refusal to take part "in the process of falsification of the will of the people," and called for “a comprehensive boycott that cold pave the road to a national democratic change in Syria.

The 9th round of parliamentary elections in Syria under Baath rule are scheduled for April 22, 2007, but the main opposition forces have declared a boycott of the elections, both with regard to nomination and voting processes.

The Syrian National Salvation Front, a coalition that includes various Syrian opposition forces abroad, including the Muslim Brotherhood and former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam, in addition to other opposition parties, said that it "was fully aware that the situation in Syria, following more than forty-four years of persistent disfiguration and cooptation of the political process…has reached dangerous proportions,” a situation that posits “radical change” as the only solution for saving the country from imminent collapse.

The Front then called on all unions and association in the country to “break the barrier of fear, marginalization and falsification” and boycott the “farcical” elections, as this move might signal the beginning of a movement for a national democratic change, which represents the only way for “correcting the deviations that have touched upon all aspects of life” in Syria.

Comments

[Virginia]

Members of the National Salvation Front:
There are many Syrian heroes who are in jail, and some who were already killed by this dictatorship of thugs. We in the West don't know much about these people, including Lubwani and others. Can you please post some photographs, and some life stories for us to read. We need to be able to really touch the tragedy of the dissidents in a more personal way. Tell us also about their families. If you want us to connect to your cause you need to make it personal with stories of dissident heroes. We connected to russian dissidents, such as Sharansky, because we knew who they were and how they were suffering.
Thank you,
Virginia

[Majd Sabri]

Thank you for this suggestion, you are indeed right in pointing this out. Some effort needs to be done here in order to highlight the plight of Syria's jailed and abused dissidents.

[yaman]

I am posting on the advice of a friend to direct Virginia and others interested to this website for more information about political prisoners, including photographs and speeches they have written or given. Please visit http://www.aelme.org/syria to see them.

However, I also feel compelled to add that the calls for boycott did not originate from the NSF, but from internal opposition groups, which are not living in the luxury of high-class Paris apartments. I also feel compelled to add that I do not support the NSF, which itself is made up of contingencies of ex-thugs and criminals.