Sheikh Ghazal Ghazal as seen in a videotaped statement released on April 9.
As Alawites continue to be targeted on the Syrian coast, Sheikh Ghazal Ghazal, head of the Supreme Alawite Islamic Council in Syria and Diaspora, called on April 9 for international protection, the establishment of an independent international investigation committee, and the activation of the role of international humanitarian organizations.
The Alawites are Syria’s largest religious minority group. The family of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad belongs to the sect.
More than 1,600 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed during a government crackdown on the coast that began on March 6.
After facing international pressure, the Syrian government announced that all operations on the coast were over by March 10 and formed an investigation committee. However, war monitors and activists have repeatedly warned since then that Alawite civilians were still being targeted by government forces.
In a statement, Ghazal emphasized that protecting human life, regardless of race, religion, or nationality, is not a political act, but a humanitarian duty.
He noted that “the killing, kidnapping, and mutilation of living bodies has not ceased to this day, and requires urgent international intervention to protect civilians, especially in the affected areas.”
“Thousands of civilians and soldiers remain detained and their fate unknown, and members of the Alawite sect are being fought for their livelihood simply because they do not espouse extremist ‘terrorist’ ideology.” He emphasized that this “suffering also affects broad segments of Syrian society, including Kurds, Druze, Christians, and others who call for peace, coexistence, and democracy.”
The fate of some eight thousand Alawites, including former officers and soldiers, who were arrested by government forces after the fall of the Assad regime, remains unclear.
Ghazal also emphasized his “rejection of accusing innocent women, children, and the elderly of being remnants of the regime,” and his commitment to defending them, noting that was not a sectarian or political position, but rather a position of conscience, humanity, and religious and national responsibility.
The statement was released just hours after government forces killed three unarmed Alawite men in the Alawite-majority coastal city of Latakia.
Activists from Latakia said that at least two young men, brothers Mahran and Mohammad Adira, were killed. Government forces apprehended them at the al-Azhari roundabout in the north of the city, and shot them on the spot, leaving their bodies in the street.
Later, the official Syrian Arab News Agency quoted a police commander in Latakia as saying that a special force “engaged” on April 9 with the head of a “cell belonging to regime remnants” who had killed two policemen last month.
The cell’s chief and at least one of its members “were neutralised”, the official said. “No effort will be spared in the pursuit of all terrorist groupings and striking [at them] with an iron fist,” he added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a total of three Alawite men were killed in the al-Azhari roundabout incident. One of them was wanted in a legal case while the other two were on their way back to work, according to the London-based monitoring group.
Videos posted to social networks later showed government personnel stomping on the body of one of the three in front of passing cars as well as the dead bodies of the other two.
The killings on the coast 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. With more killings being reported on a daily basis, the numbers of refugees continue to grow.
So far, the Syrian Islamist-led interim government has shown no real desire to hold those responsible for the recent killings on the coast accountable or to engage in a constructive way with the Alawites.
As a result, the Alawites appear to have lost all trust in the government. Calls for international protection have prevailed within the group. Still, it is unclear if the United Nations Security Council would be willing to move forward with such a complex mission.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence
NOW hosted at southfront.press
Previously, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.org.
The .org domain name had been blocked by the US (NATO) (https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/) globally, outlawed and without any explanation
Back before that, from 2013 to 2015, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.com
remember all the trolls who believed the overthrow of bachar would mean the arrival of peace in syria?
do you remember he “bashar must go” slogan repeated by the globalists and their ‘journalists’ on daily basis in 2016. it was such an obviously coordinated propaganda scheme targetting the western brainwashed golems that it became a meme. today bashar is gone and terrorists are in charge.
when i’say ‘in charge’ i include the west.
and where is the christian girl now? sold by the isis terrorist government? https://t.me/danielmkovalik/2163
if katz army could take damascus from the bearded villain and appoint an honest commander of the israeli army of druze ethnicity as president of syria.
pamela geller claims that the isis government has killed 100,000 christians and alawites and that if israel had not destroyed all the weapons, the isis government would have killed all of israel by now.
you see, druze women can be safe, and not only that, the idf has equipped them with heavy machine guns and cannons that are so large that one druze woman shoots and another druze woman feeds her the ammunition. alawite and christian women who are not under israeli protection are being sold to idlib by the isis government.https://t.me/danielmkovalik/2142
tomorrow, when trump is gone, erdogan and jolani will be selling jewish women. therefore, israel must not waste time but must find a druze officer in the idf. then they must capture damascus and declare a druze president of syria. and he must immediately sign a security treaty with israel. because when this happens israel, it will be too late for the israelis, and turkey is in nato. https://t.me/danielmkovalik/2112
syria is turkeys private garden. but turkey did not win yet. turkish troops from t4 base from west and from north will attact kurdistan rojova and turkey will free kurdistan rojova. then turkey win..
there is the greatest peace in the grave. but in the end, bashar al-assad ordered his people to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power to isis terrorists. i hope you now understand the pathos of this stupid regime, which should be builded an impregnable fortress on the coast instead of instructing its soldiers to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power to al qaeda. the druze are safe because they called katz’s army for help.
if katz wants to ensure israel’s security, he must overthrow jolani and appoint a suitable druze in his place. it would be highly recommended if katz could find a suitable officer in the idf (druze) to enthrone. because otherwise, jewish women will eventually follow the yazidi and alawite women.
the river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. he couldn’t see any way across. so he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back. suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. he decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream. “hellooo mr. frog!” called the scorpion across the water, “would you be so kind as to give me
the story of the frog and the scorpion is clearly more important than assad’s mathematics. the scorpion and the frog one day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. so he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. he climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
the trolls were jewish owned media and jewish owned hasbara outlets. just as our go vrnments are entirely su b verte d by them. those who spoke the truth were attacked by jidf trolls and adl take downs the goyim is not allowed to discuss the jewish influence and they absolutely hate you for even noticing it. they have too many mechanisms and organizations and ngos in place to silence us.
these jews even have a media room in boston. search yutub for the act.il channel and maya zarmon will tell you how to troll and mass report people who have a critical opinion of israels policies these jews have thousands of trolls and idf conscripts working every day to supress and censor us. they mass report mass flag those who notice their influence they always go unpunished get a free pass from all major platforms
we are being scrubbed from the web while their hasbara outlets and trolls are the only ones allowed to force their narrative upon us and that has made so many of the goyim dumbed down useful idiots who think they need to go to w ar anf fight wa rs for israel. our militaries and police forces are there to protect the jews in power they are our enemies they are zog bots. and not there to protect us or our interests.
dan kovalik claims that 40,000 alawites were killed by the al-qaeda government. https://t.me/danielmkovalik/2112
the so called al-qaeda government , is the israel government .
so the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. he swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. the scorpion crawled onto the frog’s back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog’s soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. the muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. he kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
a ride on your back across the river?” “well now, mr. scorpion! how do i know that if i try to help you, you wont try to kill me?” asked the frog hesitantly. “because,” the scorpion replied, “if i try to kill you, then i would die too, for you see i cannot swim!” now this seemed to make sense to the frog. but he asked. “what about when i get close to the bank? you could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!” “this is true,” agreed the scorpion,
if qatar hadn’t bribed tump, he would have already enabled katz to install a druze as president of syria.
qatar is just a us military base to extract natural gas from the south pars gas field . the government is simply puppet .
qatar is the main terrorist gang that leads all the terrorists in the world. and they have bribed everyone, including trump and netanyahu, so that they don’t see that jolani’s scorpions will one day destroy israel too. destruction is in their nature, just as it is in the nature of a python to eat its own mistress and in the nature of a scorpion to kill a frog, even if it means dying skorpion. qatar may indeed be cooperating with iran, but what if the qataris had the ability to destroy iran…
yes, that is right. and this is just attack by zio wahhabis on ummah. that is all.
halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog’s back. a deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs. “you fool!” croaked the frog, “now we shall both die! why on earth did you do that?” the scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog’s back. “i could not help myself. it is my nature.” then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly fl
killing christians is just a normal day for the zionist led mafia . they are the same as palestinians to the brainwashed cult .
what will be the final christian death count in ukraine ?
when finland takes back karelia.
at macro scale ba’ath get backstabbed and alawites are betrayed(massacred)axis of resistance and rus’ aren’t meant anything from now on, it’s better everyone responsible for its own neighborhood but not far
if the russians hadn’t interfered in syria ten years ago, the alawites would have had their own country, because they would probably have lost damascus, but they would have very likely kept the coast. nasrallah was still alive at the time and he probably wouldn’t have let isis invade lebanon. that’s why he would set up a buffer zone between isis damascus and his lebanon. those who now lead hezbollah would prefer to give hts rockets so that hts could then throw them at them.
maybe you pronounced course of events better, in according to new western doctrine next target would be either socialist asian states or american(latin) states if not iran
peacekeeping mission? there is not enough oil in all of syria for a peacekeeping mission.there are few natural resources, far too few for trump, and the only one interested in syria is israel, because israel wants security and control.
oil is has been shipped through turkey for years for israeli consumption and bribery monies . cia / mossad runs it . american soldiers are in harms way to protect the theft .
neither israel nor syria has much oil, iraq has a lot of oil, and so i suspect the scorpions will invade iraq soon.
the last one to be thrown out for oil was mohammed mossadegh, and it was done by the stupid british because they are crazy by nature.the kurds probably really are smuggling oil into israel because israel gives them weapons, and i know for a fact that wounded kurds are being operated on in tel aviv by israeli israeli nurses and surgeons treat injured kurds by erdogan. but for someone to make a war over oil in the era of texas light oil and shale oil, hydraulic fracturing…
this are all isil . did anybody heard where the isil has gone from the desert. it just suddenly disappeared. they are in the government terror organization. and turkey and israel are helping them. suyia goverment is full of isil and alqaeda. now.
syria is now a failed state. missing mr assad yet? it will be soon part of the zio nazi jewscum terrorist state. you allow united snakes of aipac usa propaganda too fool you. they are there on behalf of isrealhell only
don’t anyone mention what’s happened at a certain airbase in syria lately. it’s beyond disgraceful.
you’ll get censored.
garbage trolls out in force on this one.
there’s something being hidden.
let’s put it this way: alawites are muslims while vile wahhabis are not.
if i was those men, i would have rather die fighting the hts instead of being executed the way they are now. stupid people….stupid people.