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Russia and the United States on March 9 called for closed-door consultations at the United Nations Security Council to address the recent escalation on the Syrian coast which saw the death of hundreds of civilians from the Alawite minority in massacres carried out by government forces and affiliated militias.
A rebellion broke out on the Syrian coast on March 6 following a series of violations against the Alawites, with officers from the former Syrian Arab Army leading the move. The Alawites are an offshoot of Islam Shiite. The family of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad belongs to the sect.
The rebels saw initial success in Latakia, Qardaha, Jableh, Banias and Tartus. Nevertheless, they were overpowered by government forces which brought in large reinforcements on March 7. Since then, Alawites civilians have been targeted en masse.
Both Russia and the U.S. have slammed the killings. In a statement, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyancky said that both countries had urgently requested the meeting, which is expected to take place on March 10 under Denmark’s presidency of the Security Council.
In an alarming report, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on March 10 that at least 973 civilians, mostly Alawites, had been killed in 39 separate massacres on the coast. The London-based monitoring group noted in previous reports that an additional 231 security personnel and 250 rebels had also been killed in the escalation.
Despite growing international pressure, at least 143 Alawite civilians were killed in the early hours of March 10, according to the SOHR.
Photos posted to social networks showed the bodies of dozens of victims, including women, children and elderly men, who had been slaughtered or shot from point blank.
Syrian government forces and affiliated militants, including foreign fighters, mostly from Central Asia and the North Caucasus, were reportedly responsible.
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The massacres have so far displaced at least 10,000 Alawites to the governorate of Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon with more that 7,000 others taking shelter at Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base near Jableh.
The Syrian 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, at least one of the committee members was revealed to have anti-Alawite sentiment, which raised doubts about the sincerity of the move.
The number of victims is expected to rise dramatically in coming days as activists from the coast said that government forces were working to get rid of the bodies by burying them in mass graves or even burning them. Some even went on to suggest that the real toll may be as high as 4,000.
The massacres have inflicted serious damage on efforts to legitimize the Syrian government. The rare joint move by Russia and the U.S. in the UNSC indicates that the country’s Islamist rulers could face consequences. While a military intervention remains highly unlikely for the time being, the government will certainly struggle from now to ease sanctions and receive aid.
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the jewish race wants the americans to intervene and exterminate these jews in arab costume to further bankrupt america into debt and so the jews can steal more syrian land without lifting a finger.
they announce the sryia is now free . this is what freedom looks like . hasbara will blame assad for everything even though he is gone .
the staff of the syrian observatory for human rights were recruited from the ranks of the white helmets and the white helmets are recruited from the ranks of the jihadists.
it should come as no surprise to anyone that this group is a splinter group of the terrorist network in order to conceal the crimes of its actors and to blame them propagandistically on opponents.
these tayyip erdogan&saudi screwheads will pay for their crimes
“security personnel” = murdering bloodthirsty terrorists. “syrian observatory for human rights” = mi6. “jewlani” = zionist puppet.
those islamists scum should be exterminated with extreme prejudice
christian also have been killed by eu government keep silent and lift sanction againts hts which are ruling syria
i remember when nbc was hailing trumptard’s illegal and unlawful attack on syria with (russia in it) firing hundreds of cruise missiles… wow!… what a difference 7 years makes. only reason why he is doing this now he is bankrupt and pan handling for anything russia will give him cause he knows his military is $hit!… suffice it to say… won’t sit well with bi bi who should have had a bullet in his head by now.
the move is to justify russia moving forces into tartus and latakia to protect the alawites and coincidentally keep their two bases. after the peace in ukraine russia will have available forces. it get those two western provinces. us and the kurds keep the east. israel gets the south to “protect” the druze. iran and turkey are both marginalized. there’s a new triumvirate: trump/putin/netanyahu. can bibi ride this tiger.
trump/putin/netanyahu need to be disappeared… i often wonder how a fellow i$raeli could have put a bullet into yitzhak rabin (like jfk) who in his own right was evil as hell but found humanity because he knew that if he didn’t try to change it we would be delivered to the place we now are in.
poutine like nuttyyahoo has no intention of allowing gazans to survive on their ancestoral homeland much like those ethnic russians that survived in the donbas their right of return when the war is over… that land is too profitable, and his fifth column will control it!… as for trump… not even worth mentioning as he and his government are no longer players in any of it -anymore!…
interesting that you mention rabin. any one of that crowd, that were there then, if they had any moral and common sense, would have sold up and got out of there. i’ll bet there were a number who did. disgraceful turnout, and they just let it ride.
ariel sharon was a monster that taught bi bi everything moloch.
that ape david lammy has just given £50 million of uk taxpayers money to the zionist puppet jewlani and his bloodthirsty cannibal head choppers.
£50 million of the banker’s money.
no, £50 million stolen from freezing old age pensioners and the health service. while starmer has his £12,000 suits and his wife’s underwear bought for him by his gay asian buddy.
bankers underwrite these cunts but you’re right with the thieving. there’s got to be a snapping point somewhere along the line. optimistically, these political curs will misjudge it in their hubris and then we may see masses of angry and really nasty poms on the streets. with the mix that’s there it would be some sight ! ! i doubt if the militarized police will be able to contain them. 🤞
this could be a chance of the islamic world to show their mature and stop it. showing they can deal with such crasies themselves and do not need outside interference.
if not it shall show if the usa deserve the name gods own country and the russians the title of protector of orthodox christianity. deus vult!
assad got ass-kicked out of syria…now it’s russia’s turn…heheheh
strangely enough, erdogan and shlomo are now begging russia to stay in syria and help stabilise the country. they are both starting to realise they have bitten off more than they can chew. russia would be well advised to just let them stew in their own juice and wash its hands of syria. there is nothing to be gained from staying there. erdogan/ shlomo/ all the rest have broken syria – now they own it.
why don’t you post some of your wisdom again over at moon of alabama. you’re viewed there as a quaint oddity 😀
sudden collapse of ba’ath or whatever it is made this tragedy, can’t teach anything to arabs. unable to read history, predict human nature or limit greediness when needed so. idk if i have have anything common with alawites but there are more differences than i thought. i don’t care either west or rus. think and says about events. apparently next they wish to divide turkey in similar way, though kurds are better card overall.
looking at the wider picture, there are a number of lessons to be drawn from the current tragedy, and they are not wholly negative. the intervention in syria of iran/ russia/ hezbollah is fully vindicated. they predicted exactly what would happen, and it did. this was precisely the objective of the jewsa’s operation timber sycamore. assad turned his back on his allies in an effort to improve relations with the gulf regimes, and it backfired on him.
syria was quite a burden, financially and militarily, on iran/ russia/ hezb. that burden has now been lifted from them. syria will become a vast ungoverned, lawless space on the borders of turkey/ israel/ lebanon. jewlani and his head choppers will be totally incapable of providing a functioning administration. his regime will not last long. the neighbours will have to live with the consequences of their actions, the inevitable sectarian iraqi style bloodbath.
turkey and israel have occupied syria – they now own it. they may both find they have bitten off more than they can chew, with a long term military commitment for both. germany and the eu should brace themselves for an influx of millions of refugees. those who bought into operation timber sycamore so enthusiastically, the uk’s david lammy who has just given isis another £50 million, may experience buyer’s remorse.
you don’t shoot at helpless people you rather arrest them to appear in court of justice with dignity.
islamist are pragmatic monsters : usa was build on a genocide, israël is rebuild on a genocide….. maybe we should all rebuild our countries…
are the hts thugs trying to out genocide israel ? tel-aviv is happy .
un???hahaha
russia will obey their israeli masters. im sure they’ll even start helping the white helmets (who are currently covering up the massacres for the un visit) . this will all be blamed on “assadists”
great images. yeah, have another meeting at this fucken u.n. putin, with the jewsa, just to stall things further. keep on shovelling syrian sovereign wealth to the salafist murderers as your aid contribution. keeping these poor wretches safe and fed at khmeimim will be a very exacting task for the russian military commander, and it will linger. civilian alawite shia are a distant second to drugged up, butchering ratbags.
they still don’t tell the truth in western media here. say “some minor conflict”. eu backed up theses guys and now eu try wash hands from this…..
yes, that’s right. let’s have a nice big un meeting about it. that should really solve the problem, just like it solved the other genocide in gaza. maybe gutierres can go and slobber over his head chopper chum jewlani again. maybe david lammy can go and give him another £50 million of uk taxpayer money.