VOL. XLVII

No 11

15-March-2004

Middle East Document

Emergency Laws In Syria

(MEES Translation)

The following is an extract from an article by Michel Kilo (leftist Syrian writer in Damascus) entitled Syrias Continuing Emergency Laws that was published in the Lebanese daily al-Nahar on 9 March.

Syria has faced two issues since 1963 [when the emergency laws were introduced]. The first concerns the regimes relationship with society and vice versa, while the second relates to the way in which the regime...