A gateway for Syria solution

Labeed Abdal

The Homs truce could be the gateway for a solution in Syria, despite some skepticism expressed by some people as opposition fighters make their way out of the troubled city following the deal brokered under United Nations sponsorship.

Most skepticisms are fueled by questions about what is going to happen after the opposition and regime reached a ceasefire agreement to halt fighting in Homs? Can similar deals be reached to end clashes in other cities? And how effective would that be regarding efforts to find a way out of the crisis? One argument suggests that the Syrian regime agreed to sign a truce with the opposition because it realized that prolonged infighting will not be in its favor in the long term.

Therefore, the regime feels that negotiation is the better route to take in order to achieve gains as quickly as possible. I believe that talks about making gains is irrelevant regarding the Syrian civil war, because both the regime and opposition are part of one nation that is going through a historical crisis in which all human rights were violated, including displacing millions of people and families and the use of chemical weapons such as sarin and chlorine gas.

That is in addition to thousands of people who lost their lives or became stranded in shelters that lack basic human needs during over three years of a war with sectarian nature that disregard the basic minimums of justice, responsibility and human dignity. The two sides need to stop thinking about winning or losing and trading blame.

They must remember their national responsibility to protect their land and their people from the effect of a proxy war, which continues to cause civilian casualties on a daily basis, and lures deceived fighters from outside to enter the road of death. By Labeed Abdal Kuwait Times