Summary Of Turo: The Case Of Guatemala After A Military Coup In Syria

When Olga Montenegro wrote the essay “Turo”, she talks about the war that took place in Guatemala after a military coup. Something similar to this kind of civil war has been recently going on in Syria over three years’ time. Syrian citizens suddenly started to rebel against and attack each other; they started bombing houses, kidnapping children, and killing innocent civilians. As a result, the country turned into a kind of field for massacres so citizens were forced to flee the country and leave all of their belongings behind. Later, after the election of the new president, the Syrian governing system took an even more adverse turn. It was not the same cheerful and basically unified Syria like before, war crimes increased drastically, people could not leave their houses, and the introduction of chemical weapons brought chaos.
One day the situation in Syria, similarly to the one in Guatemala, became acrid, the citizens contravened against each other, and a civil war broke out because of the election of a possible new president, or in the case of Guatemala a military coup. The situation went out of hand; my hometown, Damascus — one of the oldest continually inhabited cities known for its multicultural and international community cuisine — became a wasteland. Teenagers caught who were writing
These chemical weapons were no ordinary weapons; it doesn’t look like anything much at first. It’s not spectacular. Above all, it’s not detectable. And that was the aim of the weapon, by the time the rebels realized what was happening the poison had already entered their body, it was too late. And then the symptoms appeared. It happened just a few meters away from me. I watched the men cough violently and hearing them scream in agonizing pain was terrifying. Soon after they started to experience difficulty breathing and soon after lost