The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

“Syrians have no future under the rule of this murderer” | Demonstrators express rejection of presidential election in several areas across Daraa

Daraa province: Syrian Observatory activists have reported seeing residents demonstrating in several areas across Daraa province, expressing their rejection of the presidential election. The demonstrators demanded the toppling of the Syrian regime and lifter placards with anti-regime slogans written on them.

 

In Daraa city, mass demonstration took place in the square of al-Omari mosque, where the demonstrators lifted placards with slogans on them read “Syrians have no future under the rule of this murderer – we continue our uprising against you”.

 

Tens of similar demonstrations also took place in Tafas city in the western countryside of Daraa.

 

This development comes after calls by the residents throughout Daraa to demonstrate against the presidential election.

 

SOHR sources had reported a general strike in Tel Shehab, Nawi, Taseel, Tafs, al-Muzayrib, al-Yahdodah and Jelbin in west Darra countryside, and al-Harak, Namer, Malihat al-Aatash and other areas in east Daraa countryside to protest the presidential elections that are scheduled tomorrow. According to SOHR activists, the regime security service broke the shops locks in Nawi after a general strike in the city.

 

Yesterday, SOHR reported that a statement was issued by tribal and revolutionary Daraa committees called for boycotting the presidential elections that are scheduled to rum tomorrow inside the regime-held areas.

 

The statement read, “over a decade, the Syrian people experienced a great epic, that will be remembered by the coming generations, against the most oppressive regime in the modern history. While the people dreamt of building a country on bases of justice and equity, the regime planned to run a presidential election farce show. Hawran clans stress the election isn’t legitimate and that it will be run in an authoritarian environment against the willing of the Syrians. The election is an episode of a series of Iranian hegemony on the Syrian decisions. Requalifying the regime on the debris of a destroyed nation is a mere ignorance for the Syrian rights and negligence to the international resolutions. We are in Hawran consider the election time as a sad and a mourning day and that taking part in it is shameful.”

 

On Sunday, SOHR activists said that campaign still continuous in different areas in southern Syria, especially in Daraa and al-Suwaydaa that called for boycotting the presidential elections. Unknown people posted banners and posters in Malihat al-Aatash villageadn other areas in Daraa countryside calling for boycotting the illegal elections. Others wrote on walls of Daraa al-Balad, “no ligitmacy for al-Assad elections, no stability for Syrian in presence of al-Assad.”

 

On May 20, SOHR activists reported that unknown individuals blotched a poster of the Syrian regime’s president “Bashar Al-Assad” with paint in al-Suwaidaa city. It is worth noting that such posters were fixed throughout regime-held areas as a part of the campaign for the incoming presidential election in Syria.

 

While on May 16, Syrian Observatory activists monitored new stickers, posters and graffiti on the walls of various cities, towns and villages in Daraa province, including al-Ajami, Tel Shehab, al-Muzayri’ah, Namer, al-Muzayrib, Ataman and other areas in the northern, western and eastern countryside of Daraa, denouncing the holding of the presidential election and calling for boycotting it. Some of these posters and graffiti read “Don’t elect the Zionists’ beloved – Don’t elect the criminal of this age – Don’t elect the tyrant and the murderer of the Syrians”.