Syria was guided, in the time of Assad, not like a country, but like a farm -- it's owned by someone and he has a 100 percent free hand to do whatever he wants, like the owner of a farm.

They shut us down before we could even say a single word.

This regime cannot survive, it must change. We say we have the right to live like other nations, to build our country. We want our children and grandchildren not to have the same pains and not to live like slaves.

We were not wrong, we were working for the common good... I think it is clear now that we were right.