look, you're a sweet thing for us, and then when generation last now on the tube industry, this kind of fun, it feels like this is the, the is coming to live from berlin ousted syrian present partial also appliances. so i looked in moscow after fleeing the revel takeover of damascus, siri and celebrate the end of 50 years of the families. oppressive, ruled healing with the rebels or calling a new era for the country and many who had fled the civil war. make the journey home crossing into syria from neighboring countries. millions of syria refugee 7 scattered across turkey 11 on in jordan for more than a decade. the

hello and cherry martin could that'd be with his. russian government has granted political asylum to ousted syrian liter boshra. alas thought he fled the country after his redeem collapse and a lightning revel offensive to begin less than 2 weeks ago. assad's fall has been a calls for widespread celebration across the country and among the syrian diaz from for almost 25 years. under his rule, syrians are beginning to turn their attention toward what rebel leaders say is a new era for their home. busha, a subs exit from syria, came quickly in the in. looters picked through his boss pell us, just hours after he flayed to russia with his family, of begging the remains of his regime. and celebration, fresh quote, for their country comes the use of injustice insults,

public water and electricity cuts. they thank god, after 50 years we were able to remove assaults, families go to willing, syria is moving towards democracy and the rebel forces who toppled aside. have received a hero's welcome and pots of damascus. civilians have joined with soldiers in wide spread celebrations. the fall, i haven't slept little since yesterday. i came early in the morning to see the people in express joy on behalf of all the mothers of the missing prisoners and matches. my brother was mine, such as all my friends and neighbors on us because the rebels have moved quickly to free thousands of people locked inside asides, notoriously brutal jails, newly released prisoners, asked bystanders in damascus. once it happened. still unaware of the regimes in

mid celebrations or the assad full plenty of questions remain don't what comes next for syria? repo lita and format. i'll tell you, the member of the mohammed l galani is likely to play a key role is re eval, broke h t is, was instrumental in over throwing a sides regime on sunday, the leader addressed cheering crowds at domestic asses, historical, my id mosque, this victory, my brothers is a new history for the entire islamic nation. this victory, my brothers, is a new history for the region. the prime minister mohammed kazi al galilee has said he will assist with the peaceful transition of palate to a government chosen by the people. but who we have a lead theory is next chapter faces and the norm is task and unifying the country

for now, many remain cautiously optimistic about the country's future. the more in this we can speak now with alert a show agree he's a human rights advocate and director for the tiny affairs of the syrian emergency task force. he himself was detained for 3 years in the syrian prison. a more thank you very much for being with us. first of all, tell us how you felt when you learned that the sod regime had been toppled. i've been waiting for that moment for 14 years, 14 years of, of displacement of tortured off killing. and then i see it early, early in the morning and the people are out on the street. the side regime has fallen. i could scream very, very, very, very loud for that. but i cried because it's that it deserves the tears of joy. this regime has,

has given my father and my brothers and bombed my school and burned my town and tortured me for 3 years. so the joy is unmatchable. we can see it in your smile. many political detainees are now being released from serious notorious prisons. you know, these prisons all too well, give us a sense of the scope of this prison system. how many detainees there might be, and what a subs else thing will mean for them, and their families, documented detainees in syria before the fall of the regime used to be around 139000. that's a documented, i believe it's over 200000 people who've been in these assaults, tortured on a daily basis. just to give you a simple example that tells you how brutal those prisons is. the god could come at any moment to yourself and tell you and your celebrates, hey, i want you to choose one of you to be executed tomorrow and the guard lease. and then you have to city of cell mates and see hey,

who is willing to die tomorrow under torture. so the rest as in dog. and then we have to make a lottery to choose someone and for us to be killed tomorrow. you can imagine it's not easy. if it's too cold outside the guard would come in to warm up his body by torching us. if his wife doesn't go completely the last night to come and pill us, because the gods have had the immunity, they know they could go so many without being questioned to why, what's, why did you kill that person? this regime has, has killed syrians for, for over 50 years. it's not new and the world knew about it. however, as we mentioned the world, the world have seen us struggle and left us alone. we fought alone. we, we were in pain and we were tortured alone, and we dreamed alone, we hoped alone and today we went alone and action. and so he was disappointment to see that 100 democracies in the world did nothing to liberate over

a $139000.00 foot to the prisoners. while we wait until a few rubble of groups come and fight and liberate those presents, i'm very grateful for them forever. i will always be grateful for them and respect them for that move while the world had disappointed the strongest nations in the world, but nothing to save the lives of so many. you mentioned some of the horrible, horrible abuses that have taken place in syria with political prisoners and others . how can syria go about addressing questions of justice and accountability in connection with those horrible abuses? now, just the 1st step towards just as has been bringing down the side routine and that's check we got. so next step is to making sure that the people who were killed and tortured the ones was that provides their lives for us to have freedom. we need to have that freedom. we need to have that democracy that we're dream dot. that's. so that's very important for me. so young people to remember that we have to be

engaged on a daily basis into politics, to make sure we build the process, allow us to end up having an election, having a democracy, and choose the people that we believe can represent us and care about us so that's how we achieve part of the justice. then there is the necessary, the of, of actually bringing the criminals, including a sub and his family and the top of dental vision, services to prosecution spa screwed them for the crumbs. they committed in syria. you cannot prosecute everyone who committed a crime because the number is to use because the regime had implicated so many people in these wars. but we would have to end up prosecuting the, the top leaders i thing, and then it would have to reconcile with our pain with our own suffering. and i can give you a very beautiful example. actually, my sister has been hiding on the coast where i am from for 10 years, it would not the lot to talk to her on the phone because if there was, she knows we're talking to her, they may kill her and she is in then. yes. then yes, as soon as the, surrounded by a lot of follow wide cities and villages and they were celebrating yesterday when

the regime fall on the street. my, my, my sister in our town and all the lights came with their elder. and they took the lights and apologized for all the pain they cost people for being part of the machines, game story for, for being forced, mostly to be part of the resumes game. and the end of the celebration ended in the lights villages so that i could not imagine happening so quickly. so people being willing maybe not to forgive, but to move on to say ok, i may not love you. i may not forgive you, but i would like to live in peace and to send my school, the kids, my, my kids, the school without worrying and just i want as the time of i sat to be to be over and to start a new life. so i'm very helpful for see, i'm very hopeful that you will be able because we, there was you in the don't fall in a week to 14 use those 14 years taught us. we have to love each other to care. we

have to at, to be inclusive to care about also is god less whether they are muslims, christians, whether they are crowds or doors or, or sunday, or she out doing all the wides, whoever they are. everybody deserves their respect. unless they have committed crimes, they need to be boxed seated for more. thank you very much for talking with us today. that was human rights advocate, omar. i'll show great time to catch up on some other stories. now regarding the syrian transition, there is really forces have moved into a demilitarized buffer zone with syria along that is really controlled, go on heights. israel says it's a temporary but necessary measure because of a 50 year old truce that ended when us as soldiers left their post of israel annex the strategic territory. for decades ago, with most countries regarded as part of syria. russia says, call the emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss the events in

syria. the kremlin has been the syrian regimes biggest backer in recent years, and is now facing the potential loss of its key military enabled bases in the middle east. in law staff with serious embassy in moscow have hoisted the opposition black. after toppling that the toppling of serious regime, many syrians who had fled, the civil war to other countries have started to return home. scores of people were seen crossing into syria on monday. like here at the how must the border crossing between the level syria, news of the fast rebel advances and take over a major cities in the country had been celebrated widely among the syrian diaz for abroad? well, journalist mathias, a book is at the syrian border. i asked him earlier, what he's saying that i'm here in the code is region of ne, syria and people here celebrated 2 days ago or yesterday a, that's

a prison and also to form a present also that left the country towards moscow. so people here are really happy about him having left about on the other hand, they are not really um regarding with optimism into future because they don't know what would happen now in syria. there are many islam is malicious and fighting with different a goes and one melisha of the so called syria national army s n a is fighting in the city of money which actually against quotas troops. and it's a really, it's very difficult to say and um, to have an idea about what will happen in the next days and weeks to come between the east limits malicious and the code is troops in this region where i am is the toppling of the outside regina visible there in the border region, would you say where i am?

it's not visible because this area is autonomous for already many years. when in 2011, the civil war began, and the kurds here established an even stronger autonomous statues and organized themselves with the democratic structures and assisted with the acid regime. for example, in the nearby city of commerce leads, the airport was held and controlled the assets of troops. and as the assets and militaries about the rest was already construed bites, cool dish fighters and cool dish administrators. because now offsets the soldiers have left in direction to iraq and they still keep organizing and the yeah, keep organizing their region here by themselves. the courts you mentioned at the beginning of or interview the people you're talking to. there are a bit nervous about the future,

a little apprehensive. what kind of concerns do people have who you're talking to, their, what are they thinking about concretely? a serious a country with a lot of ethnics and a lot of different religious groups. christians in a level for example, that in the southern regions there are several minor groups and the kurds here, as i mentioned, the they control no one 3rd of the country and present a president to add one talk. he's president, is the anatomy of them and they feel they, they for, threatens by out of them because out of one is, sees the courage as terrorist as if they would be of the same kind of v. i. s, tara groups were also present to you in the desert. so, and the people here fear that present outer one and took it has an own agenda, which is not likely to be friend that towards courts. and so there are

a lot of future conflicts to come if there won't be a political diplomatic solution for syria as a whole. but he has thank you very much for talking with us. that was journalist mathias, a bunch, and the curtis region of north eastern siri. you're watching dw news, i'm terry martin. thanks for being with us. why do humming does not get drunk? why do we have a tasteful waves squeeze our bodies? how much do we need per day pounds praying for help find the on says get as much on dw science and i'll take talk 10 of the.