Abdul Baset Al-Sarout

Abdul Baset Al-Sarout
Abdul Baset al-Sarout gathers protesters at the University of Idlib.
Personnel
Surname	Abed al-Basit al-Sarout Abdelbasset Saroot
birthday	January 1, 1992
place of birth	Homs ,  Syria
date of death	June 8, 2019
Place of death	Reyhanlı ,  Turkey
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2011	Al-Karamah SC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007-2008	Syria U-17
2009-2010	Syria U-20

Abdul Baset Al-Sarout or Abdelbasset Saroot ( Arabic عبد الباسط الساروت, DMG ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ as-Sārūt ; born on January 1, 1992 in Homs , Syria ; died on June 8, 2019 in Turkey ) was a Syrian football player and leader of the Syrian resistance fighters in Homs. He played for the Syrian U-17 and U-20 national teams . Al-Sarout was the first known soccer player to join the Free Syrian Army rebels against President Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War .

When Al-Sarout led some large demonstrations in 2011, he became one of the leaders of the Syrian resistance fighters in Homs. After that he was considered a prominent supporter of the resistance in Syria . The Arabic-language news channel Al Jazeera described him as "a very well-known face of the Syrian uprising ". The song he sung Janna Janna (translated “Paradise, Paradise”) is considered one of the musical hymns of the Syrian resistance. It is based on an old Iraqi song, the text of which Al-Sarout wrote as a declaration of love for the cities of Syria.

His four brothers were killed by the Syrian secret service and his uncle Mohe Edden Al-Sarout died in Homs in November 2011. Al-Sarout himself was wounded several times in al-Bayadah, a district in Homs, and survived at least three assassinations.

In 2013, the Syrian-German documentary Homs - A Destroyed Dream by Talal Derki filmed Al-Sarout's career from goalkeeper of a youth football team to commander of a small group of fighters on the side of the Free Syrian Army .

Despite his initial attempts to perform together with Syrians of other faiths, recordings in which Al-Sarout exposed jihadist ideas became public during the course of the civil war. Alawites were threatened with "slaughter" in recorded protest chants, and there were also messages against Shiites and Christians .

On June 8, 2019, numerous opposition activists reported his death. In a hospital in Turkey he succumbed to the injuries he suffered as commander of the Jaish al-'Izza - a rebel group allied with the al-Qaeda-affiliated Haiʾat Tahrir al-Sham - in an offensive in the rural area of ​​Hama near Kafr Nabudah and Suqaylabiya had drawn against the Syrian army as well as the Russian army. Other sources report that Al-Sarout was fatally wounded 12 kilometers south-east of Suqaylabiya in Tal Maleh village.

Web links

• Syrian Revolution Icon, activist Abdelbaset Sarout - documentary. (Film, 25:08 minutes) In: freesyriantranslators.net. March 12, 2012(Arabic, English, also on YouTube ). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacquelin Magnay: London 2012 Olympics: Syrian goalkeeper takes a stand in Homs as national side aim for Olympics. In: The Daily Telegraph . March 13, 2012, archived from the original on May 16, 2012 ; accessed on November 22, 2014 (English). 
2. ↑ Abdul Baset Al Sarout Live Blog. In: AlJazeera.net . 2012, archived from the original on January 7, 2012 ; accessed on June 8, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Austin Chowdhury: Syrian Arists: Abdul-Baset Saroot-Janna Janna Janna. In: Blog "Soundtrack to the Revolution". December 3, 2012, accessed June 8, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Rida Al Khayat: رضا الخياط ، جنه جنه - عام ١٩٨٢. (Video, 2:52 minutes) In: YouTube . Retrieved June 11, 2019 (Arabic, "Paradise Paradise, 1982"). 
5. ↑ Syria Reacts to Arab League suspension. In: theguardian.com . November 13, 2011, accessed June 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Ines Kappert: Documentary "Homs - a destroyed dream": Exhausted and armed. In: taz.de . March 4, 2014, accessed June 8, 2019 . Moritz Baumstieger: "Homs - a destroyed dream" on Arte: End of the party. In: sueddeutsche.de . March 4, 2014, accessed June 8, 2019 . 
    
7. ↑ Fabian Schmidmeier: The Syrian Revolution - Part 1: The activist Abdel Basit as-Sarout. In: The Orient. December 5, 2015, accessed on June 9, 2019 (German). 
8. ↑ Nabih Bulos: Syrian rebel leader's death spurs debate about his legacy. In: Los Angeles Times. June 11, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 . 
9. ↑ SOHR: Syrian Army Mines Claim Lives Of 17 Militants In Kafr Nabudah. In: Syrian Observatory For Human Rights. May 31, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham's 'Red Bands': Interview. Retrieved June 11, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Syria's famous goalkeeper-turned-rebel Sarout killed. In: dw.com . June 8, 2019, accessed June 9, 2019 . Ex-footballer apparently dies in combat. In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2019, accessed June 9, 2019 . 
     
12. ↑ Christian Weisflog: Syria's “singer of the revolution” is killed in battle and plunges the opposition into mourning. In: NZZ.ch . June 11, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 .