Charisma News re Christians in Asia

A very en point article with factual information. I have a question. When Revelation 2:10 tells the church in Smyrna that they will have tribulation for 10 days, does it mean 10 years? I am thinking this is so because this hideous persecution has been going on since March 2011. This means our Christian brothers and sisters have been suffering persecution for nearly 8 years. It will be 8 years in March 2019.

Anyone who discounts this persecution and tribulation as meaningless to Almighty God's timeline, really needs to question themselves.