Syrians in ar-Raqqa protesting against Islamic State and Assad

Not Comms Officer · March 21, 2015, 03:54:52 AM

And for reference, ar-Raqqa is the base of operations and de facto capital of the Islamic State. So this is some brave shit they're doing.

And from the sounds of what goes on in the video, IS's way of dealing with protests is not so dissimilar to the way the Assad regime dealt with them in the early days of what was the Syrian uprising.

🂿 · March 21, 2015, 04:03:53 AM

Good grief.

gats · March 21, 2015, 04:13:49 AM

damn, telling isis face on to leave raqqa. good luck peeps they're going to need it. they could get massacred

Not Comms Officer · March 21, 2015, 04:16:50 AM

Quote from: gats on March 21, 2015, 04:13:49 AM

damn, telling isis face on to leave raqqa. good luck peeps they're going to need it. they could get massacred

The video implied and explained how while IS let the protesters do their thing, they predictably went all over the protesters once they went back home.

Which is pretty much the same tactic Assad tried to use between January and April, before the protests started getting too large to handle, so they began opening fire on the protesters.

I'm not expecting protests like these in other IS-held cities, since information has been extremely tightly controlled by IS. So residents in other IS-held cities will most likely never hear about these protests.