Walid Saffour, President of the Syrian Human Rights Committee, recently gave an excellent talk at the Temple of Peace in Cardiff
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Mohammad Arabi gave a brief overview and the recent history of Syria.   He said that there was a mix of Sunnis, Shiites, Christian, Kurds and Abyssinian in the country but Mohammed stressed that there were no religious or ethnic tensions in Syria, they were one nation.
Walid Saffour
Hafez al-Assad achieved a bloodless coup on 13th November 1970 and assumed the role of President.   Since then Syria has been ruled by …