The regime and its opponents both dig in their heels while each tries to convince the other to give up. Appeasement, brutality, and other mix-messaging dominate the regime's approach to increasing unrest while protestors continue to put their lives on the line to voice their grievances. 

This culminates in the Great Friday, where Syria sees its largest protests and highest death toll thus far.

Sources cited: 

Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad by Dr. David Lesch

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Dr. Wendy Pearlman

My Country by Kassem Eid

No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid

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