The Arab league has voted to suspend Syria from its meetings on November 16th if the regime in Damascus fails to implement a deal to put an end to the brutal crackdown against anti-government protesters. The Arab League decided last week to suspend Syria, but the decision was adopted at a meeting in Morocco on November 16th.

The league also decided to impose severe political and economic sanctions against Syria; making Syria more isolated from both economic and political orbit. Recently, the 22-member body agreed that it would withdraw its army and security forces, open dialogue with the opposition and invite press within two weeks.

Nevertheless, Syria reneged and lingered irreverently, killing more than 100 people. This stronger-than-expected move came amid worsening humanitarian conditions in Syria over the last eight months. Meanwhile, Jordan’s King Abdullah has become the first Arab Leader to explicitly call for President Basher-Al –Assad’s resignation.

Prince Turki al Faisal, former chief of Saudi intelligence, has also echoed his sentiments by saying that it is inevitable that he will have to step down one way or the other. The Arab League intervention in Syrian political unrest opens in a big way the possibilities of repairing the damaged system, especially in Syria and other Arab countries devastated by greed for authoritative power.

The United States hoped that the League would use meetings to send a clear and hard signal to Assad that he needs to allow for democratic change and end violence against its people. The year 2011 brought unrivaled changes at the political podium in the Arab world, ending decades of human oppression at the hands of both economic and political discourse.

Anti-government protest first abruptly erupted in Tunisia, paving a way forward as a mark of encouragement. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya; the three African nations witnessed a change that was overlooked as impossible a few years back.

In the Middle East, Yemen and Syria are still poised with reluctance to hear calls for installation of democracy, good governance and economic reforms that are inversely in the interest of their countries. Arab League General Nabil Araby suggested that the body had run out of patience with Assad. “The Arab League started exerting pressure on Syria to put an end to deathly battle with the protestors and to come to dialogue from the last four months, but Assad didn’t budge”

The Arab League intervened in the crisis and called for urgent measures to safeguard the Syrian people from violent and despotic repression by Assad’s regime, that during the last nine months killed nearly 3500 people.

Syria’s Baathist regime which has been in power for the last five decadesand even so doesn’t seem to soften its stance against its own people, shows that greed for power perhaps diminishes the substance to subsistence!

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People of the Arab world have started to envisage a society that is not designed to suppress the voice of the people.

The importance of democracy has really dawned on the people of Syria, which shows that they have picked up something which already set ablaze many Arab states this year. The wave of disturbances between state and citizens that rocketed in Tunisia and Egypt arrived in Syria, leading to the death of hundreds of people.

This crisis at the outset is much deeper in meaning. It represents how the state has ignored the will of its citizens and deceived its people under President Bashar-Al Assad, who inherited Syria’s harsh dictatorships from his father Hafez-Al-Assad.

Economic stagnation and ancient autocrats are just a few of the grievances that are responsible for the upheaval currently threatening to sweep away the ruling regime. Decades of repression and in some instances economic sluggishness has resulted in viole”nt disruption of political, social and economic life in the general Middle East.

What is needed is a series of political and economic reforms that would foster economic growth. Furthermore, it calls for recognition and granting of basic rights to people to protest and bring about change.

Political liberty in terms of rule of law, more education, a free press and liberation of women is required for every state to lead a peaceful life. Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate in economics on Economic development, said:

“Development has to more concerned with enhancing the lives we lead and freedoms we enjoy.”

People were shouting houriye, houriye (freedom, freedom), and it represents the fact that people realized that their political system is not really reflecting their views.

The relationship between the state and its people had been devastated. According to Economics, a newspaper, “the media which focused on the apparent aspect of the crises (filmed or to produce reports describing the events in the street) have not paid attention to socio-conomic, demographic or political aspects of Syrian society”.

The Syrian society disregarded the existence of more than one political party to oppose the Baath Party until recently. But recent violent protest clearly reveals frustration and state of unease for the people led under pressure to bring in new law that now permits the creation of new political parties along-side the ruling Baath Party.

The key demand of the protest is the liberation of the political system and freedom to form political parties that had been restrained by article 8 of the Syrian constitution so far.

Existence of single political party shows a political monopoly in the country, in economic theory birth or existence of monopoly is regretted or hindered by law similarly in politics it is protest for a change that eventually leads to more just society.

Now the attitude of the Syrian government has been softened since the cabinet approved the multi party bill. Other political party can now participate in elections. Normalcy and prosperity should not be unreachable in the future.

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