President Al-Assad Inaugurates Memorial of Syrian Universities Martyrs

DAMASCUS , (ST) – President Bashar Al-Assad on Saturday visited Damascus University to join thousands of Syrian students in the inauguration of the memorial of Syrian Universities’ martyrs. Families of the martyr students attended the inauguration ceremony.

 After the inauguration, President Al-Assad had some talk with families of the martyrs and a group of students.

“The armed terrorist groups have targeted students, universities and education facilities countrywide, because killing, destruction and sabotage constitute the core of their policies, but these terrorist acts enhanced our determination to go ahead in our path of enlightenment and construction, said President Al-Assad, highly appreciating the Syrian students’ insistence to get knowledge and education even under fire. 

The President added that “these West and regionally-backed terrorist groups, which have been fighting the Syrian people, couldn’t tolerate a statue of the Arab philosopher poet Abu al-Alaa al-Ma’rri or tolerate a bridge built to serve citizens in Deir EzZour, so they can’t tolerate the open-minded Syrian youths who armed themselves with education and knowledge against narrow-minded thinking.”

President Al-Assad reiterated that “Syria had given the Alphabet to the world, thereby helping humanity start writing down history. Syria presented science, literature and architecture to the entire world and it will continue to do that and to rewrite the history of dignity and sovereignty with the help of all its sons.”

For their part, the students affirmed their determination to continue defending Syria through seeking education and protecting the universities’ infrastructure.

Families of the martyr students stressed that their sons were martyred while they were getting their university education and this must be a challenge and an incentive for their colleagues to keep seeking knowledge and make the education process a success.

H. Mustafa