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The Autonomous Administration project which came to life in North-East Syria per the ideology of the people’s leader Abdullah Ocalan, was confirmed to be a success by the Syrian Regime… OK, maybe not exactly. The confirmation may not have been a direct, or even verbal one – but it was a more discreet confirmation which can be put together by the divine pieces of the common sense: why else would the Syrian Regime secretly assassinate or attempt to nationalise tribal leaders?
The Syrian Regime is attempting to cause misfit in the areas which were liberated by the Autonomous Administration and is wanting to do so through the assassinations of tribal leaders. This is a known tactic used by enemy forces throughout the entirety of history, that to bring down a system one must hit it where it hurts the most. For most organizations or systems (and even for the Syrian Regime itself) this vulnerable spot happens to take the form of one person – generally a man. These are undemocratic authoritarian regimes, unlike the Autonomous Administration, which the Syrian Regime proved in its attacks against the people to bring the Autonomous Administration down.
So, we will take this as a confirmation from Assad himself that the Autonomous Administration is both bottom-up and equally diversely! But one question still remains unanswered: why, when there are so many fractions within society, is Assad targetting tribes?
It is a reality of the current social structure in the Middle East, and especially in Syria, that tribalism is of grave importance. But tribes are also of great importance for the states of the region. Many regions in Syria are under the rule of tribes or large families which can be organised or won the support of by influencing the person whom the tribe is the most loyal to – the leader of the tribe.
Tribal structures constitute the backbone of the regional sociability, cultural structure and many traditions. They also constitute the backbone of the revolution in Rojava where tribal leaders assigned hundreds of their members to fight alongside the SDF in the liberation of the region from ISIS. Thus, the advantages to be gained through the loyally and support of a tribe leader was only newly discovered by the Syrian Regime, despite the fact that the peoples’ leader Abdullah Ocalan had been working with tribes for over 30 years. This late awakening by the Syrian regime cost it control over almost a-third of the country it claims to own.
In this sense, the Syrian Democratic Council (MSD), which follows the ideology of the Leader Abdullah Ocalan, has also been very aware of the power of tribes and their potential to give back to society. Hence, the reason why it is constantly meeting and discussing with tribes on every move it takes.
There are tribal structures in Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and many other important regions of Northern and Eastern Syria, which are of strategic significance. As a newly developed tactic by both the Turkish and Syrian regime, ethnic nationalism is being used as a gun to divide the Autonomous Administration and is being implemented directly through political propaganda. In this way, efforts to create an environment of conflict between peoples have been accelerated enormously.
Following the liberation of the regions with strong tribal structures by the SDF, the acceptance of the Democratic Syrian model by the tribes changed all the plans of the Ba’ath regime and external players, such as Russia, on the region. These forces later attempted to pursue their plans by creating instability by sparking internal conflict between peoples in the Region.
It has been proven in many intelligence documents that the MIT and Syrian Regime intelligence were in contact with and in positions of support to ISIS. Both Syria and Turkey had accepted hat ISIS would be victorious in its occupation attempts, and both states were racing to win this new regional player on their team. Once that plan failed, the two states worked together forming a dangerously dirty alliance to kill important tribal leaders in the region.
As you may recall, on July 30, Chairman of the Tribal Committee and Spokesperson of the Igêdat tribe, Suleyman El Kesar, was killed in his home in Dêrazor. Then, Ali El Wis, the headman of the town of El Dehla, was attacked. The confessions of the captured Syrian regime gang members exposed the activities carried out by the Turkish Intelligence Organization (MIT) and the conspiracies and dirty alliances of ISIS gangs that went underground in the form of cells.
The Syrian government has tried countless times to persuade tribes not to accept the SDF. And again, the attitude of the Syrian regime has not changed in any way, despite all the efforts of the Northern and Eastern Syrian Autonomous Administration, for dialogue and permanent resolution of the crisis. Despite all the difficulties and dirty tricks it faces, the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria has superiority in ensuring the security of the people and responding to their needs, making the regions liberated by the AA the only safe havens in war torn Syria.
So the people of the Autonomous Administration will continue to flourish as one of its kind, with the idea and labour of the people’s leader Abdullah Ocalan.
