As the new Syrian government presents itself as the outcome of fourteen years of struggle, a central question emerges:
How can a general amnesty be granted to figures linked to the former regime while many former revolutionaries and activists remain listed as wanted or subject to travel bans?
Transitional justice rests on two pillars:
accountability for violations and restoration of victims’ rights.
Critics argue that the current trajectory risks reversing that balance — offering forgiveness broadly while requiring former opposition figures to undergo “status settlements,” implicitly framing them as offenders.
Such contradictions may erode public trust and revive feelings of marginalization that originally fueled the uprising.