BEIRUT: Syria’s Druze must relinquish all links with Bashar Assad’s regime and join the "revolution," Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said.
“It is time to make the bold decision of moving from under the umbrella of this regime, which is destined to fall sooner or later,” Jumblatt said in his weekly comments published in Anbaa Magazine Monday.
Although he had made a similar call last week to Syrian Druze, Jumblatt went further this time by calling on them to join the opposition.
“[It is time to] join the revolution, which has from the beginning raised the slogans of freedom, dignity and change, which are rightful and legitimate slogans for the Syrian people,” he said.
The comments came after fierce clashes broke out last week in Druze villages on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon between rebels and pro-government forces.
The battles killed at least 31 members of pro-government forces and around 14 insurgents, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
Jumblatt said the recent “tragic events” have once again revealed Assad’s plan to create war between different religious groups.
“The purpose is to sustain the flaming crisis and keep the regime in power, even at the cost of dead Syrians, and at the expense of the millions of Syrians who were displaced,” Jumblatt said.
Jumblatt slammed Assad’s assumption that his regime would protect minorities, accusing the president of exploiting minorities for the sake of empowering his own "tyranny."
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