The herd behavior continues to play an essential role in our lives as human beings and the most prominent manifestations of the herd behavior are religions in their classification of people between a believer and an infidel, but of course there are other manifestations of herd behavior, such as patriotism, nationalism, color, sex, social class, language, culture, political affiliation and financial abilities..
I followed the events in Syria from the beginning in the escalation, with the emphasis that it is not possible to determine who began the assaults because the difference in the level which is similar to color gradient and the difference from one region to another ....
- The youth demonstrations started in 2011 with the expansion under the banner of freedom, which later evolved to become "The people want to topple the regime", hoping that President Bashar al-Assad would step down, as happened in Tunisia and Egypt...
- The regime has made some modest reforms as a reactions to containment of demonstrations rather than as political reforms capable of bringing about national change as an effect rather than as an impact...
- The demonstrations did not stop with the continued incitement of Al-Jazeera and the use of social networking sites by the youth. The regime's fear of its interests and then the national security began to escalate, prompting it to tighten the security grip in a direct manner based on a primitive security apparatus...
- A few clips of arrests and torture of protesters uploaded on YouTube, then exploited by some channels of Gulf countries to incite against the regime and deliberately transfer an image of exaggeration accusing the regime of targeting demonstrators with live bullets and liquidation in prisons...
- The fear of young Syrians has increased from the security and mixed with anger to become a collective fear that instigate the demonstrations instead of discouraging it. The reason is that fear exceeded to activate the herd behavior against the security apparatus as an enemy that targets the lives of the demonstrators...
- The demonstrations have acquired aggressive and violent aspects such as the destruction of public facilities, the burning of state offices and in isolated cases the assault andkilling of security elements...
- The level and spectrum of the conflicts varied depending on the nature of the region, in some of them most of the demonstrators were arrested and some of them were killed including some of security elements, in other areas the demonstrations stopped as well as areas whose youth did not demonstrate from the beginning ...
- The intensity of the conflict in rural areas and villages was more than in the cities and in the Sunni areas, more than in the Shiite and Alawite...
- Sectarian TV channels have already played for over a decade on increasing Islamic Sunni-Shiite sectarianism, and also the political sectarianism orientation of the regime has played an important role in varying degrees of escalation from one region to another...
- The army deployed in all Syrian areas and engaged in direct operations in some...
- The conflict at this stage reached a state of chaos and loss of control. The checkpoints and lists of names which are spread created imaginary borders that limit the popular mix, especially when revenge increased from the security forces against civilians or civilians against the security forces or civilians against each other. .
- Thus, the escalation continued. And in light of globalization and the ease of media to intervene, the situation worsened. In the end, it turned from youth demonstrations into an open civil war involving militias from many countries including the involved ones with the regime which is mainly consider as a party of this civil war. This war has been going on for more than six years, with no absence of any horizon to terminate..We as human beings must control our herd behavior and must be at the level of responsibility as conscious beings to reject injustice even if the oppressor close dear and to defend the oppressed even if he is a stranger opponent .