Seventy eight years ago, Syrians struggled to gain their independence and fought for the withdrawal of French forces from Syria. After independence, they continued their struggle to build a free state that ensures their rights, preserves their dignity, and in which people are equal without discrimination. Since the current regime took power immediately declaring a state of emergency, suspending political life, issuing laws preventing the media from performing its role, and preventing the work of non-official media, Syria entered into a corrupt totalitarian rule which continues to this day in a more horrific, criminal, and disastrous form. Syria is now going through one of its darkest and most oppressive days, and has fallen prey to a group of people with no values who have usurped the state and power and prevented Syria from enjoying true independence. True independence is fulfilled when people become the holder and source of powers, and when the authority respects the law and the right to citizenship, and powers are separated, the constitution and the law are respected, and the authority works for the sake of citizens, not for its own survival. Independence is having true sovereignty over the state and the land, a civilized constitution, justice, freedom, equality, respect for human rights, political pluralism, democratic elections, and peaceful circulation of power, which is what the Syrian people have been sacrificing for.