The shooting death of a prominent Syrian anti-government activist serves as a cautionary tale
AMMAN, Jordan - Till the end of his life - years after Syria's early "Arab Spring" peaceful protests had morphed into bloody sectarian warfare - Raed Fares insisted he would continue the fight against the autocratic government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
"We weren't (even) the slaves. We were the animals in this farm," he said in a 2017 presentation at the Oslo Freedom Forum, referring to life under the dynastic rule of al-Assad, who met initial calls for social change with an iron-fisted response.
"The question is, was it worth doing a revolution? It was."
Yet Fares' killers, who peppered his van with dozens
