Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui
It has been a decade since the Arab Uprising swept across the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region. There are mixed reactions to this as many are either mourning the past or hailing the present. However, for a common Syrian, the past decade represents a story of sorrow and alienation as they are dragged into a new vortex of violence every day. Today around 88% of the Syrians are living below the poverty line[i] and around 2.8 million children are out of education[ii]. A UK-based monitoring agency, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, has calculated that in past one decade, 3,87,453 people have lost their lives including 1,16,119 civilians.[iii]
