Shohoud Jadou'a, Baladi news, Hama
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it", Assad's regime continues to follow Goebbels instructions. In the furnace of the raging battles in the countryside of Hama, the regime and his allies are still hanging by a thread, that could be the last, spreading electoral propaganda like "We will eradicate it", referring to ISIS, and "It's done", referring to the war, despite the numerous killings among them and the advancing of rebels on ground.
Photographs of candidates running for the Parliament were spread along the city and countryside of Hama with slogans like "Following the wise leadership", "For Syria… We listen…We talk…We work". Such action is considered a complete detachment from what's happening just a few kilometers away in the liberated western side of the city, where the rebels managed to liberate Al-Mansoura and its silos in Al-Ghab plain.
In this regard, the dissident colonel pilot Mustafa Bakkor said "What is happening in Al-Ghab plain in Hama is a preemptive operation by the rebels following the arrival of a brigade from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard," explaining that " pre-emptive action in military tactics is less expensive than defense."
The contradictions in the electoral campaigns are not different from the contradictions of Syrian formal declarations regarding the economic crisis in the country; both of them are completely ignoring the real situation in Syria.
"The city of Hama turned overnight from a conservative city to a big nightclub full of strangers, songs and Dabkeh maniacs"; "Electoral tents spread the squares of the city, but they didn't appeal to the conservative locals of the city, so they were only attended by thugs who were attracted to indecent songs and spirits as being the most important features of such campaigns ", according to Sarah, a student at the Faculty of Education.
An old man from the city, Mahmoud, sadly expressed the situation saying: "The city of scholars had become an unbearable place".
The city is undergoing a state of daily violation of its heritage, culture and traditions by its new invaders, according to the locals.
