The boy who started and survived the Syrian war

In 2017, Al Jazeera broadcast a documentary by Clover Films that sought to item the existent origins of the Syrian civilian war. By that year, planetary sympathy for the rebel origin had diminished dramatically arsenic Western media adopted the accepted mainstream presumption that groups specified arsenic al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and adjacent ISIL (ISIS) had been down the revolution. (ISIL didn’t adjacent beryllium astatine the clip of the uprising.) The Boy Who Started the Syrian War would alteration the narrative.

Now, with the illness of Bashar al-Assad’s authorities on with its service and militia, the Shabiha, it’s clip to conscionable erstwhile again with the surviving characters from the archetypal film. One of those is Mouawiya Syasneh, who had laid down his schoolhouse satchel and picked up a weapon to combat with the Free Syrian Army.