What Does the "Mobilization" that Assad issued a law on today mean?

 

The decree issued by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad singled out the case of "mobilization", a designation that began to spread since the beginning of the crisis that the country witnessed in 2011. What does it mean and what does the law aim at?

Lawyer Aref Al-Shaal told RT that Legislative Decree No. 104 of 2011 defines general mobilization as “putting all the country’s human and material materials at the service of the war effort in accordance with the requirements of the country’s interest.” real estate and even people.

Al-Shaal adds that the purpose of Law No. 20 of 2021 issued today, is to “pay the price of the mechanisms that the army mobilized” or used in its operations in the war, as well as paying the salaries of the people it mobilized, as disbursing expenditures from the budget requires a legislative text.

While a lawyer, who did not wish to be named, says that the mobilization situation, as it actually took place, witnessed abuses, which made people whose properties were mobilized feel unjust, which the new law seeks to remedy.

The source indicates that one of the indications of the new law is that the state of mobilization was announced in the country, as the mobilization decree (No. 104 of 2011) determines the controls for declaring mobilization, (as in declaring a state of emergency), including that it be announced by a republican decree after the approval of the People’s Assembly, and it is likely The source said that the mobilization was announced after the issuance of Decree 104, ie in August of the same year.

The law also defines the cases of declaring mobilization, including:

When a war occurs between Syria and one or more countries, or the threat of its occurrence.

When regional and international relations are tense.

When internal disturbances threaten the security of the homeland.

When facing natural and unnatural disasters.

 

Osama Younes

Source: RT