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November 7, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/11/06/in_syria_a_sagging_opposition/

In Syria, a Sagging Opposition

(Boston Globe) Thanassis Cambanis - Authoritarian Syria has so thoroughly quashed organized opposition that even the most committed dissidents are so convinced of their own weakness that they don't want the regime to fall, fearing that only chaos would follow. Despite his visceral anger at the government he calls a fascist dictatorship, Haitham al-Maleh, 74, a human rights lawyer, doesn't want to see it collapse because he doesn't think there's anything to replace it.

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