DAMASCUS, Syria — In a SHOCKING display of historical amnesia, a rapper who once fueled anti-Assad rebellion has now returned to a shattered Syria to perform for the VERY SAME Islamic regime accused of horrific sectarian massacres. Hani Al Sawah, known as Al Darwish, walked freely through Damascus streets this week, celebrating his homecoming with sold-out crowds just ONE YEAR after a bloody insurgency toppled the dictatorship. But this is NOT a story of triumph. It’s a HARROWING exposure of a nation trading one tyrant for another, where artists are NOW complicit in whitewashing a NEW wave of terror.
Al Sawah’s “unapologetically political” songs once defied the Assad dynasty. Today, they soundtrack a DEEPLY disturbing reality. While the rapper basked in applause, the regime he now performs under has been implicated in the BRUTAL slaughter of Alawite civilians on the coast and a ruthless intervention in Sweida that left hundreds dead. The revolution has DEVOURED its own children, and this artist is dancing on the grave. “If we want to say that the regime really did fall, then so should this fear,” Al Sawah naively declared, IGNORING the chilling truth: the fear has simply changed hands. Citizens now whisper about the new Islamist authorities with the SAME paralyzing dread they once held for Assad’s secret police.
His joyful return and the crowd’s roaring approval paint a VICIOUS paradox. It proves that populations, traumatized by war, will cling to ANY semblance of stability, even if it means applauding a government bathing in the blood of minorities. The underground rebel has become the regime’s performing pet, and his hopeful narrative is a DANGEROUS lie sold to the world. The real song of Syria today is not one of liberation, but of a people FORCED to cheer their latest oppressors just to survive. The masks have changed, but the nightmare continues. One truth remains: in the Middle East, the revolution always ends up EATING its dreamers.
Author: Kayitsi.com
