Will the February 6 earthquake promote the rehabilitation of Bashar al-Assad? The Syrian president hopes so. In a country ravaged by eleven years of destruction perpetrated by both the Islamic State organization and the Damascus regime, at least 3,600 people died in the terrible earthquake that struck the region. And some 5.3 million victims have little chance of finding shelter. The needs of the population are immense: food, blankets, medical equipment… But humanitarian aid, which usually transits through Turkey, itself stricken (more than 42,000 dead), arrives in dribs and drabs.
A state of affairs immediately used by the regime to demand the lifting of international sanctions which attempt since 2011 to stem the merciless repression carried out by Assad against its population. Political scientist Ziad Majed, who directs the Middle East studies program at the American University of Paris (AUP) and notably wrote “In the head of Bashar al-Assad” (with Farouk Mardam-Bey and Subhi Hadidi, Actes Sud, 2018), denounces these attempts to exploit the drama by Damascus to break out of its diplomatic isolation. Interview.
What do you think of the Syrian request to lift the international sanctions weighing on the regime in Damascus in order to facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid after the earthquake which struck the north of the country on February 6?
Ziad Majed International sanctions have absolutely nothing to do with AI
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