Samir Al-Masry reveals what he said to Bashar Al-Assad...and why Ayman Reda cried

Artist Samer Al-Masry revealed the backstage and details of his meeting with the ousted Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad after the revolution in Syria in 2011.

Samir Al-Masry and the Syrian regime Al-Masry said that the regime used it to calm people down after the demonstrations and the death of many young people after the state directed weapons at them.

Details of the reconciliation in which Al-Masry intervenes Samer continued that he went to the areas of Douma, Saqba and Hamouriyah in the Damascus countryside with a group of his artist friends, including Saif Subaie, Ayman Reda, the late Nidal Sejri and others, in order to reconcile with the people there, and people began showing him videos of regime elements shooting at people and pictures of the victims who were demonstrating.

Samir Al-Masry narrates the incident of Ayman Reda crying Samir said for the first time that after this reconciliation he said to Assad: “I wish you hadn’t sent me. I was a supporter, now I am an opponent.”

Al-Masry also said that during the reconciliation in Al-Shifouniyah in the Damascus countryside, he entered and saw Ayman Reda crying after the scenes of victims he saw, and the pictures of the army shooting innocent people.

Forced to leave Syria Samer Al-Masry also explained that he was forced to leave Syria because he was threatened and feared harm to himself and his family. Samer had previously published a picture of his family in his home in Damascus after the regime seized it over the past 14 years.