Illustrative image. (Syrian Arab News Agency)
The murder of four Alawite men in western Syria on September 28 escalated sectarian tensions in the region, which has been unstable since the fall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, an Alawite himself, last December.
The four men were construction workers. They were reportedly shot while on their way back from work near their town, Jidreen, which is located in the western Hamas countryside. Alawite activists said that assailants came from the nearby Sunni town of Musa Elhawleh, with some even accusing security forces of being complicit in the crime.
The sectarian crime caused outrage among the Alawite community, especially in the western countryside of Hama where more than 21 towns announced a general strike. The crime was, however, completely ignored by the Islamist-led Interim Government. It is even unclear if an investigation was launched.
Sectarian violence against Alawites persisted since the fall of the Assad regime. It reached its highest point in March, when a series of massacres orchestrated by government forces in response to an uprising by the community claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Alawite civilians on the coast and in the western Hamas countryside.
Following the massacre, the government repeated its pledge to protect minorities, including Alawites, and launched an investigation.
However, a recent report by Human Rights Watch criticizes the government for failing to ensure accountability. It highlights a lack of transparency in investigations, impunity for senior officials, and no prosecutions for command failures despite evidence of negligence.
Since the massacres, Alawites have been killed on a near-daily basis, with the government ignoring nearly all of the crimes.
In addition to the four Alawites killed in the western Hamas countryside on September 28, two others were killed in separate attacks in the city of Homs.
The situation of Alawites in the western Hama countryside remains especially bad, however, with reports confirming that members of the community were completely displaced from several towns, or were extorted to give up rights to their farmland.
Earlier this month, an Alawite woman from the town of Hawrat Ammourin was abducted then gangraped while on her way to work. Alawite activists said that the rapists came from the nearby Sunni town of al-Asharenah. The government promised an investigation, but as usual no one was held accountable.
As Syrian Interim President Ahmad al-Shara and his senior aides were holding a series of meetings last week with foreign leaders in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, hundreds of Sunni fighters from al-Asharenah, some members of government forces, stormed Hawrat Ammourin and tried to abduct the woman who was raped. The fighters claimed that they were responding to the abduction of a Sunni man by Alawite insurgents who were themselves seeking revenge for the woman.
Of course the rape case in Hawrat Ammourin was not an isolated incdent. Since the fall of the Assad regime, dozens of Alawite women have been reportedly abducted, with over 30 remain missing and many of those who returned reporting secterian-fueled sexual violence. Despite reports from the U.S. and many independent monitoring groups, the government denies that such crimes are taking place.
As for the coast, there have been fewer killings and abductions there, but that’s likely only because the region is the heartland of the Alawites who make up the vast majority of its population. Still, there have been a surge of fires there with Alawite activists holding the government reasonable, citing negligence, as well as straight up arson by security forces and military personnel.
In addition to all of these violations and crimes, Alawites have been facing some serious economic hardships as a result of mass sectarian layoffs. They also continue to be denied the chance to work in some sectors, especially when it comes to security forces and the military.
As a result of everything that happened since March, calls within the community for an uprising, even an armed revolt, have been gaining momentum.
However, a new uprising on the coast remains highly-unlikely as Alawites are now completely isolated with no regional or international allies willing to back them in any way. At the same time, the odds of reaching any understanding with the government seem to be non-existent.
In the face of this situation, sectarian tensions will likely continue to build up in western Syria until the international and regional situations change in a way that could push any of the main players to back the Alawites. But even this is not guaranteed to happen any time soon. The vast majority of 2-3 million Aalwites living in Syria today could end up fleeing the country within a few years.
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the israeli / cia / mi6 project has no care or empathy for humans, seeking only more power for psychopathic colonialist pirate war bankers to rule the region.
in the end they can only make messes of the world. by destroying thousands of years of human civilization. they operate completely oblivious of their incompetence to rule
according to reliable sohr sources, the civilian was kidnapped in march, by members of the ministry of defence and the ministry of interior and was put in jail, where he was torturing to death as his family were being blackmailed into paying money under the pretext that the civilian is still alive and detained and needs money and food. it was later determined that the civilian died and his body was found in al-waleed hospital.
pete hegseth, trump and many other over paid useless generals have been in large meetings for days. again the us appears ready to expand unconstitutional wars not approved by congressional nor funded by designated funded by ear mark. world war three is the only dish offered on the menu. palestine is a internationally recognized nation. despite us vetos
accordingly, the number of detainees who have died under torture in prisons by the “interim government” has risen to 57, most of them from homs province.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/370734/
nato must break up kakharia (russia). the time to destroy russia came yesterday.
retribution wreaks havoc on smackdown: smackdown, august 7, 2020
this is what nato should do in the kremlin.
months after being kil*led in prison | family of “alawite” civilian blackmailed in homs
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homs province: an alawite civilian from from karam shimshim neighbourhood in hosm city was killed under brutal torturing in prisons of the current government.
this is all part of a bog standard joo orchestrated terror campaign of divide and rule. they are a malignant influence wherever they are. joolani is a joo glove puppet.
by bog do you mean zog? and yes, he’s a fuck of a puppet. wahhabis are pest of the world that must be destroyed is we shall live in peace.
the entire russian leadership needs to be replaced if you want a solution.
“today and in the future, russians will not have a single safe place.” sibiga, ukrainian nazi foreign minister…
why this nazis still breathing?
why our “mighty leader” let clowns like this menace (and kill our people!)?
defeating the nazis were the cause of smo wasn´t?
putin is lost!
russian must take this task at their own hands! and we will!
either our “mighty leader” wants or not!
was this a syria story / thread ? creating disorientation is a hasbara trade mark
well, syria are as it is, because russia abandoned it. and palestine are as it is, because russia cant admit that it created those so called “jews” out of thin air, and bandits.
you have my sympathies on this one.fifth march five years ago syrias fate was sealed.
oh yes, definitely. that false naratives, tony macaroni and bozo the 🤡 is one of specialty.
they have completely miss that the nazis recently created a martyr, ala the attack on germany by people dressed in polish uniforms. should not surprise me at all if the murder of charlie kirk are 100 percentage trick movie. but if it are not, how many do you think they killed by cancer in the asbestos sanitization 9/11 ? russia seems to have hard to localize the nazis. hard to see the death cult, creating hate.
patsy tyler robinson seems to have be in cia hitler jugend program for brain wash, and creation of hate, update on this on sonar21. no official comment on the real pictures of the murderer, or explosives under charlie’s shirt yet ! fbi’s fantasy agents are frentically working onto get you to see things, that you dont see !
it seems to be something wrong with larry c johnson’s thinking ! when he shows a rare collection mauser from wwi, which actually are meant to be demountable. it was not what we are told by fbi was used. what we are shown are a rifle with glass fiber stock, and i dont think it even have the mauser mechanism ?!
anyhow, it seems to have a stainless barrel 😂 ooompaaa booompaaa 🤡
russia has no problem localizing nazis, problem is global banking jewry that is using nazis and nato on chess board. we know what is going on. this is almost repeat of narrative of world war 2, except america and nato countries are fourth reich against brics
halfwit atlanticists dont realize they are on wrong side of history. and being used by the bankers. maybe italians and spanish are the most intelligent despite their smaller economies. they are increasingly anti-jew. which it is now a sign of intelligence as it is obviously that it is true predator leading all the child-like atlanticists to slaughter.
they are totally blind for the nazis, the galactic empire, that executed 9/11, mass murdered in the hospitals, and are performing genocide of the jews. they should kill their satanic child with the devil, those “jews” created out of thin air and bandit khazars. they live in a fantasy world, with walking cadavers, and “un”. it is gone. why have not russia sent a military ship to guard the delivery of aid to gaza, against the rabies infected nazis ?
putin is a pathetic whore of donald trump! the russian people won´t accept this, in any form or way! he will go down, just like the romanov almighty leader!
putin and russian cowards stabbed syria in the back…
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don’t mind psychotic that turn schizophrenic. he frequently does this.
it’s easy to think others are crazy, many misguided people think others are crazy, and then it turns out that the crazy people were right. naivety cost the alawite fools dearly, because if they weren’t completely stupid, they wouldn’t have trusted traitorous russia and would have fought honorably with hts until or death or win.
look, it’s hard for you to admit that russia is a criminal traitor who also betrayed armenia and serbia, only armenians and arabs are not stupid alawites and now they know exactly what russia is. that’s why there have been protests in serbia for almost a year now because they want to get rid of the pro-russian vučić and join nato. and keep an eye on the clock, in less than a week dump will start destroying iran.
if iran was smart they would assassinate the isis goons in syria and re gain influence to prevent israel use of syrian airspace and geo-strategic assets.
but iran is always on backfoot so i dont expect miracles
… as well as israeli territorial expansion… it os pretty clear why there is ethnic cleansing in western syria. is it not?
it is to make room for future israeli occupation.
last days of wahhabi shit.
does putler have terminal conly a complete replacement of the traitorous russian leadersheep or a uyghur attack on china can solve this.ancer?
murderous us hypocrisy for supporting jolani and his murderous band of killers.
traitorous russia must be dismembered.
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silent genocide: ethnic cleansing taking place right now in syria
by michael welch, vanessa beeley, and drago bosnic
global research, may 03, 2025
region: asia, middle east & north africa, usa
theme: crimes against humanity, global research news hour, media disinformation, us nato war agenda
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“the only thing that stood between the mass killings that we’re seeing now and the terrorists was, of course, the government of president assad and the army of syria. and right now …we’re seeing, you know, lawlessness, lack of security, starvation, poverty, and sectarian ethnic cleansing programs against particularly alawites, shia, christians, but also an attempted attack on the druze populations.”
– vanessa beeley, from this week’s interview
listen to the show there was once an old tale of a frog walking along a river bank. he met a scorpion who asked him to take him across the waters on his back.
“how do i know you won’t sting me?” asked the frog. “i wouldn’t want to sting you, for then both you and i would both drown!” answered the scorpion.
convinced, the frog took him on his back and headed off to the other side of the river. however, when he was halfway across, the scorpion stung the frog. and as both started to sink beneath the waves the scorpion said:
“i couldn’t help it! it’s my nature!” [1]
the moral of this story is when you engineer a group of fundamentalist extremists, re-brand them “freedom fighters” and then send them after the next figure on america’s most wanted list of figures standing in the way imperial conquest, don’t be surprised if those same fighters return to their old head chopping ways when your backs are turned
the world may have witnessed an escalation of slaughter of alawites and christians in early march, and amnesty international may have played a role in setting about investigating who was responsible and why it happened. but the side that gets little attention is how far western nations are willing to go to ignore the guilt of the new “post-assad” regime and giving them the responsibility to look into the situation.
according to human rights lawyer prof. dan kovalik writing for covertaction magazine in march, “reliable data indicate 7 00 0 chris tians and al awite s” were slaug hter ed
the same as tia dalma in “pirates of the caribbean”. thats why both jack sparrow, and i, are little skeptical towards women. my god, what the mouth works on them.
the downfall of traitorous iran is in sight.
on this week’s global research news hour, we take a special look at this unrepentant flood of bloodshed to which even the western mainstream media considers unfit for public broadcast, and the hell some people have to suffer to satisfy the longings of america’s “opulent minority.”
on the show, we feature long-time syrian reporter and friend vanessa beeley who talks about the people currently fleeing syria into lebanon
and the stories they are relaying that are ignored by the western mainstream media. she as well talks about her own story of fleeing syria when it was clear that the hts fighters would soon be descending on new home of damascus. after that, we talk to military and geopolitical analyst drago bosnic about the bigger picture, including what the foreign powers supporting this new regime get as a dividend for their investment.
vanessa beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the middle east – on the ground in syria, egypt, iraq and palestine, while also covering the conflict in yemen since 2015. in 2017 vanessa was a finalist for the prestigious martha gellhorn prize for journalism which was won by the much-acclaimed robert parry that year. in 2019, vanessa was among recipients of the serena shim award for uncompromised integrity in journalism
drago bosnic is a military and geopolitical analyst, regular author on global research and a frequent guest on the global research news hour radio program. in december 2024, he received an award for his writings on geopolitical analysis and on nuclear war from the mexican press club.
(global research news hour episode 471)transcript of vanessa beeley, april 14, 2025
global research: the western press
global research: the western press actually reported on the violence in syria perpetrated by government-aligned forces, but that was about a month ago and there have been no new reports except for instance a report from amnesty international talking about investigating the attacks against alawites, but from a month ago in baniyas. from what you can tell from the people fleeing into lebanon from syria that you’ve spoken to, has that violence actually subsided?
vanessa beeley: no, not at all. in fact, we’ve been hearing in the last four or five days that there are convoys of so-called hts, which i would still explain to people they are al-qaeda.
they were formerly al-nusra front in syria, which was al-qaeda in syria. they were then re-branded as hayat tahrir al-sham or hts, as you rightly said, to try and distance themselves from the atrocities and crimes committed by al-qaeda or nusra front, but in reality the ideology remains
the same, so i still perceive them as being al-qaeda. and basically we’ve heard stories from aleppo, from hama, homs, from contacts that i still have there, that there have been huge convoys of hts forces heading towards the coastal region and the belief is that they’re going to be increasing the ethnic cleansing campaigns there.you’re right to say that i was in northern lebanon a few weeks ago, shortly after the kind of ramping up of the ethnic cleansing,
because of course it began immediately after the takeover of damascus by hts and jolani. now he’s of course known as ahmed al-sharar, but his real name or his former name, which still has a bounty on his head, by the way, from the us, is in charge of operations. and so when i went to northern lebanon, to akkar, which is the region on the border with syria in the far north, people, then syrians, were crossing from the smuggling routes
at that point there were already 10,000, so this is about two, three weeks ago. now i’m told there are around 30,000 to 40,000 refugees in northern lebanon fleeing the danger of ethnic cleansing and the slaughter that’s been ongoing on the coast, not only of the alawite sect but also of christians, of sunni muslims that are objecting to the extremist actions or the atrocities being committed by hts and the foreign mercenaries that came also under the hts umbrella, which include of course
uyghurs from china, chechens, tajikstans, afghanis, a huge number of foreign salafists that are operating now in syria and have been since 2011. and the atrocities that we were hearing being talked about in akkar, in lebanon, and the fact that when they fled their homes and villages, they were being hunted down in the mountains and in the forest by drones and assassinated even after they had fled.
if the uyghurs learn well and do something terrible enough in china, equivalent to september 11th for the united states, they are a solution. china maintained communism and a successful country when, when it was being destroyed, it ran over the country’s enemies in tiananmen square with a tank.
might will be have dropped atomic bombs on damascus. china is not stupid traitorous russia and just one major uyghur terrorist attack…
in any case, traitorous russia must be destroyed.
you mean if china sent a trick movie with “airplanes” speeding into skyscrapers ? how should this help anyone ?
the forests were being set on fire to try and smoke the refugees out. recently i think hts has threatened to establish checkpoints close to the smuggling routes to prevent the refugees even reaching lebanon safely by shooting them when they see them crossing. and so, you know, the atrocities have continued.
they haven’t stopped. and even they are now taking place also in damascus. there have been attacks particularly on alawites and shia muslims in damascus itself and also attacks on the holy shrines, the shia holy shrines like sayyidah zaynab, but also other shrines across syria have been decimated.
and so, no, you know, nothing has really slowed down or stopped. there was, of course, this ridiculous idea that hts would investigate its own crimes just as they expect the zionists to investigate their own crimes against the palestinians. and of course, that has come to nothing.
vb: i think the last number that i had that was, let’s say, reliable from a perspective of people on the ground letting me know what the numbers were, the syrian observatory for human rights, to be honest, always downplays the figures, although it’s widely used for its reporting by the un and so on. but i think the realistic number is around 20,000 to 25,000 dead. and then on top of that, of course, the 30,000 to 40,000 refugees in lebanon.
gr: do you have any insights into why exactly even the mainstream media were reporting on the violence around march 6th and 7th and 8th and 9th, and now it’s subsided? i mean, what kind of factors entered into it? i mean, why would they report it out in the first place? and now why are they dumbing down the activities that have been taking place?
vb: well, i mean, i think what’s interesting is that there was an alleged un investigation committee that went to syria. there was a lot of controversy over that, whether they did actually send a committee or not. but i know that hts were effectively threatening people if they came forward to speak to either the media or the un, that if they did so, their families would be punished as a result.