Illustrative image. (The Syrian Arab News Agency)
Violence targeting the Alawite religious minority in Syria continues, with at least 17 members of the group, all civilians, reportedly killed across the country within 72 hours by the forces of the Islamist-led Interim government.
On June 3, five Alawite men were found dead in a Damascus hospital just two days after being detained by security forces, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which said the men were “summarily executed”.
The men were going home from work in Damascus two days earlier when their bus was stopped at a checkpoint. Neighbors were initially told the men were detained by security forces and “in good health”, according to a report by the SOHR.
“The bodies of five members of the Alawite community were found” at Al-Mujtahid hospital in Damascus, the monitoring group said, adding they had been “summarily executed” by shooting.
The driver was also being treated at the hospital, the monitoring group said. A seventh person from the bus remains missing.
The very next day, June 4, the SOHR said that eight Alawite civilians were shot dead by “security checkpoint personnel” in Hama.
According to the monitoring group, “security checkpoint personnel carried out a field execution of eight civilians, including three women, and injured five others — all Alawite, travelling in “a civilian passenger bus” in the western Hama countryside.
On the same day, the SOHR reported that three more Alawite civilians were killed and property torched during a security operation in the southern countryside of Latakia.
The monitoring group said that “security forces descended on the town of Beit Ana on Wednesday [June 4] evening” and set fire to homes “as well as a school, a shopping area and a sports club during a security operation”.
“Two young men from the village, one of them with special needs, were shot dead” during the operation, while the body of a third man was also found with gunshot wounds, said the group.
Security forces said that the operation was carried out in response to an attack on a telecommunications center in Dalia by an outlaw group.” However, SOHR head Rami Abdel Rahman said that locals denied any attack on the communications center.
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On June 5, the SOHR reported the death of another Alawite man, also a civilian, in Homs. According to the monitoring group, the man was arrested by security forces four days earlier and died under torture.
“The young man’s family was informed today that they must report to a security branch in the city to receive his body. No official explanation has been provided regarding the cause or circumstances of his death,” the group said in a report.
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The government ignored all of these reports. There were also no reports of investigations into any of these deadly incidents.
More than 1,700 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed during a government crackdown on the coast last March. After facing international pressure, the government formed an investigation committee. However, war monitors and activists have repeatedly warned since then that Alawite civilians were still being targeted by government forces.
The violence has so far displaced nearly 50,000 Alawites to northern and eastern Lebanon with around 10,000 others taking shelter at Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base near the city of Jableh in the southern countryside of Latakia. The numbers of refugees continue to grow.
In addition to the killings, the SOHR reported a troubling rise in enforced disappearances and kidnappings, with over 50 women and minors reported missing in recent months.
Security forces also continue to imprison some 8,000 former soldiers and officers, mostly Alawites, who laid down their arms before the fall of the Assad regime last December. Many have been already reported to be dead as a result of torture or even summary executions.
The Syrian government is yet to hold anyone accountable for the killings or ease security measures in Alawite-majority areas in the coast and elsewhere. It also refuses to integrate the group into its security forces and administration structure.
As a result of this situation, the group appears to have lost all trust in the government. A new uprising by the group seems highly likely, especially on the coast.
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seria melhor uma guerra civil na síria porque metade do país seria pró-irã e a outra metade apoiando israel. o sonho de israel é uma síria unida para atacar futuramente o hezbollah. se metade da síria se separa de julani e de israel, israel não vai conseguir seu objetivo a longo prazo que é atacar o hezbollah pelo leste.
the dream is merely to take the land and bribe the uselful idiots who run it, so that it can be depopulated: just like europe. of course the political leaders are all lodge members and on a tight leash and steady money supply – it is the same in australia and all over the world. the spike is particularly effective against southeast asians as it was designed apparently.
this cannot happen in europe, this can only happen in europe in the movie don’t speak evil. in syria, it happened because assad and especially his wife drove the alawites crazy. in our district, someone like jolani would be killed by his own people. gavrilo princip would appear in europe and send putler and jolani to hell to yahweh.
when cia / mossad led al qaeda terrorist rule is welcomed by the white house . all non jewish syrians are simply fodder . no one will speak of protecting alawites let alone do any thing . greater israel expansion is the only mission . despite any genocides
today : israel has also just violated the lebanon cease fire agreement by bombing . and placed isis into gaza to destroy any aid that might be smuggled / given to the palestinian people .
not even the gazans are crazy enough to hand over weapons to al qaeda or isis.
spike protein does not affect only one population on the entire earth. what an interesting coincidence. let’s all pretend the ethno-state isn’t behind killing off every other group of humans on earth. pretending is fun. alawites, must be some sort of white innuendo perhaps, best to eliminate them to be sure, eh fellas ?
sunnis killing shiites/alawites etc. is nothing new and not restricted to syria. can’t wait the day when due retaliation for hundreds of years of massacres start.
us tax dollars at work.
these are wahhabi monsters from all 4 corners of this shut fuck world doing theirs dirty tasks for jewsa.
the white house loves these wahabis/takfiri head choppers.
why are muslims so violent? kill, kill, kill! muslims on muslims. killing women and children with cold blood. #muslimsout
so called sunni will remain sunni they are like sheepp follow in one direction what whabhi takfiri say. they re the biggest enemy of ummah. today ummah is suffering of this diots hypocrite sunni who have become slave of zionist . this sunni wnats to kill the resistance who fight this west and zionist. real sunnni are already dead
i hope the traitors putler and assad die this year.
if utkin, nasrallah, and soleimani were alive, this syrian disgrace would not have happened.
this disgrace will outlast putler’s lifetime.