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Syrian Revolution Dbq Analysis

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“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe you make it fall” (Guevara). A revolution is exactly that, and during the Syrian conflict the citizens of Syria did the same thing. They picked the apple and did not wait for it to fall. The Syrian conflict started March of 2011 when a group of teens were arrested for painting revolution slogans on school walls, this lead to people demonstrating on the streets things took a dark turn after that. Security open fired into a crowd of demonstrators and it all went downhill from there. Some people might argue that the Syrian conflict should be considered a genocide because it was an act committed to destroying a group however, it should be considered a revolution because it fits all of the …show more content…

“The government is fully in control at this point, but there are forces lurking beneath” (Document A). According to this document the Incubation Stage/Incubating causes is when the government is in full control but people are starting to get angry. This fits the Syrian Conflict perfectly. The people were angry with the government because of the arrest of multiple teenagers, but at this point the government was still in control and no rebel forces or the citizens of the country where fighting back at that point in time. Another stage of the revolution is when the symptoms start to show, which also was shown throughout this conflict. “At this point the government is also incredibly inefficient. The established bureaucracy is breaking down and unable to effectively manage the country” (Document A). During this Syrian dispute there was symptoms that showed enough to prove that this was the second stage of the revolution. One of the events that caused this revolution to transition into Symptomatic Stage was the shooting of demonstrators. In March of 2011 during one of the people's protest. Things got out of hand quickly and lead to security forces to open fire in the crowd of demonstrators. From there the revolution entered the Symptomatic stage because a “rocket filled with the nerve agent satin” (Document B) was fired on districts around Damascus. This attack was blamed on the Syrian Government. Therefore this should not be called a genocide because of how each stage of a revolution fits this

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