Because the rebels swept throughout Syria, symbols that had as soon as gave the impression omnipresent collapsed.
In Aleppo, a statue of one in every of Mr. al-Assad’s brothers, Bassel al-Assad, on a horse was once toppled. The pony remained.
In a village north of Damascus, the capital, an enormous statue of the ousted chief’s father, former President Hafez al-Assad, was once felled.
The statues have been over excited, in all probability for scrap steel.
