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The death toll from the Syrian government crackdown on the coastal region has exceeded 1,311 with civilians from the Alawite minority making up the vast majority of the casualties, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said late on March 9.
Three days earlier, rebellion broke out on the Syrian coast following a series of violations by government forces and affiliated militias against the Alawites, an offshoot of Islam Shiite. The family of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad belongs to the sect.
After initial success in Latakia, Qardaha, Jableh, Banias and Tartus, Alawite rebels were overpowered by government forces which brought in large reinforcements on March 7. Since then, a series of massacres against Alawite civilians have been taking place.
Syria’s Islamist government said that it was holding its personnel accountable for any violation during operations against the rebels, who are mainly made from former officers and soldiers of the now dissolved Syrian Arab Army.
In addition, the government announced on March 9 that it had formed a judicial committee to investigate what it described as “recent events” on the Syrian coast. Nevertheless, the numbers provided by SOHR shows that the mass killing of Alawite civilians is still ongoing.
The London-based monitoring group reported 160 civilian victims on March 7, 366 on March 8 and at least 301 on March 9.
In total, the group has documented the death of 830 Alawite civilians so far, in addition to 231 security personnel and 250 rebels.
Most government attacks on March 9 targeted Alawite areas within the city of Banias and in several nearby towns, including Tanita. Attacks on civilians were also reported in the towns of Tala, Beit Al-Shakouhi, Brabshbo, Datour and Al-Bahlouliya in the countryside of Latakia. The attacks included mass executions and artillery shelling, according to footage posted to social networks.
The massacres have so far displaced some 10,000 Alawites to the governorate of Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media.
More that 7,000 others continue to take shelter at Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base near the city of Jableh, where they are being provided with humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, the Syrian government brutal crackdown on the coast continues to draw more condemnations from around the world.
In a press statement released on March 9, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, had been murdering people in western Syria.
“The United States stands with Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families,” Rubio said in the statement. “Syria’s interim authorities must hold the perpetrators of these massacres against Syria’s minority communities accountable.”
Israel also doubled down on its stance against the country’s Islamist rulers with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar saying that European countries must “wake up” and drastically change their approach to the new Syrian government.
“Over the weekend, the masks came off when [Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s] men mercilessly massacred their own people — the citizens of the so-called ‘New Syria,’” Sa’ar told German media outlet Bild.
“Europe must raise its voice: against the massacre, against the barbaric murder of civilians, against this distilled evil of the jihadists,” says Sa’ar. “It must wake up. It must stop granting legitimacy to a regime whose first actions — unsurprising, given its well-known terrorist background — are these atrocities.”
“The international community in general, and Europe in particular, has flocked to Damascus in recent months to shake hands” with Sharaa, Sa’ar complained.
The minister went on to say that the new rulers in Syria “were jihadists and have remained so, even if they now wear suits.”
All in all, the situation on the Syria coast appears to be worsening on all levels. The massacres against the Alawites will weaken the unity of the country for decades to come. Still, the Syrian government appears to be determined to go on with the crackdown.
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eu still supports al nusra terrorists, the worst of the worst is in the terrorist genocidal leadership of eu and erdoganistan!
try that with sunnis. the eu and usa would bomb the hell out of shiites. and putin would just watch.
and where the hell is iran ,why they are so quiet? even israel showed minor reactions
iran prepares for us attack i guess. trump has already threatened to attack them. turkish bastards will help israel and usa. so iran needs a good preparation.
iran can’t attack golani directly because that’s a trap for iran. then turkish goat-f…er hakan fidan uses it as a pretext to let usa and israel bomb iran.
they are pig moslems
you are a pig yid. no, sorry, don’t want to offend pigs.
they are pigs if they are moslems
they are less than pigs if they are yids.
because moslems are pigs
getting ready quietly. they know what is coming . the famous trump letter never arrived .
moslems are pigs
it isn’t. better to say try that to muslims, because these sunnies are not even muslims, rather wahhabis.
innocent people are innocent unless your a zionist .
israel also supports terrorists . these activities are to disrupt any possible future resistance . iran is on the menu , syria is the road to iran . blaming ex assad forces is media cover .
they support moslem pigs
but in all areas of this israel is heavily involved . it will never make your news programs . the script writers are well trained .
spare us your crocodile tears benz-genz shekelberger shitfuck.
mosloms are pigs
no, jews are.
the french government allies assassinated 1300 people. the french government is supported by one-third of the frenchs.
mosslomms are pigs
i think allah is very pissed by now that he mainly attracts violent psychopaths whose only vocabulary seem to be “allah is great”
muslomms are piggs
the ba’athist regime was the only thing standing between these fanatics and the general public. well, now that’s gone, the syrian people are suffering the consequences. all because they were mad about food prices or whatever bullshit they were protesting in 2011.
moslums are pigs
israel caring about the slaughter of non jewish civilians in syria……that is one hell of a joke. syria or any other country in the world i should add.
mouslems are pigs
it is hell of a joke!
not only alawites also all christian in syria are under threat
because musloums are pigs
yidz are filth.
do alawites forget the crime they did in syria since 2012 that resulted martyrdom of more than 18 lacs syrian muslims fuck asad regime remnants, kill their all men no civilians are being killed by hts and videos circulating in mainstream media of children being killed are old crimes of alawites of asad regime here they are showing videos of their crime and spreading false news about hts that they killed children.
all moslems are pigs
yep, killing down unarmed civilians, pretty manly, there. not much of a challenge, but what price cultural and ideological-political religious purity, right.
moslomss are pigs
the dogs of erdog
pig dog moslems
moshloms are pigs
a dirty braindead pig is what fellt out of your whores mother cunt.
alawits terrorists must die.
bastards like you should die.
hasbara israel will blame ex assad forces in every and all problems . the object is to destroy the nation to such a failure that the citizens will have no means of self defense or determination . . they will accuse hts forces but never really blame . dystopia .
don’t expect a peep of protest about this from fake ngos like human rights watch or amnesty international. these are “good” terrorists doing “good” beheadings, like the “good” nazis in ukraine. gutierres and other uk and eu lumiaries will still hug and slobber over chief-headchopper-in-a-suit jewlani. because those are our rules based human rights democracy values, and that’s just who we are.
anyway, the jooz can commit genocide so why can’t jewlani?
former saa military bases and depots were full of arms and ammo, but sadly assad fully misscalculating and underestimating the whole situation, didnt arm the anti islamist and minorities on time, so they now only poorly can fight and defend against the iskamists now.