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The Syrian coast experienced a serious escalation over the past week with a rebellion breaking out and hundreds of civilians from the Alawite minority being killed by the forces of the country’s Islamist government in retaliation.
The rebellion broke out on March 6 following a deadly operation by government forces in the town of Beit Aana in the countryside of Latakia. The move was led by a force dubbed the Military Council for the Liberation of Syria. The commander of the force was revealed to be Gaith Dala, a former senior commander of the now dissolved Syrian Arab Army’s 4th Division.
The rebels saw initial success in Latakia, Qardaha, Jableh, Banias and Tartus. However, they 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.
On March 8, Russia opened Khmeimim Air Base near Jableh for hundreds of Alawites refugees and called on all “respected” leaders of the country to stop the bloodshed.
In an attempt to contain the situation, the Syrian interim government announced on March 9 that it had formed a judicial committee to investigate what it described as “recent events” on the Syrian coast.
And on March 10, the government said that its operations against the so-called “remnants of the Assad regime” on the coast had ended. Nevertheless, the killings continued.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a report on March 11 that 47 separate massacres had taken place on the coast with a total of at least 1,225 victims. 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.
According to the group, a single civilian was killed on March 6, 160 others were killed on March 7, 366 on March 8, 303 on March 9, 263 on March 10 and at least 132 on March 11.
Videos and 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 range. Syrian government forces and affiliated militants, including foreign fighters, mostly from Central Asia and the North Caucasus, were responsible.
By March 11, the massacres had displaced at least 10,000 Alawites to the governorate of Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon with more than 7,000 others taking shelter at Khmeimim Air Base.
The Syrian government does not appear to have the will or the ability to end the killings on the coast, which has already damaged both its reputation and legitimacy. Meanwhile, the Alawites appear to have lost all trust in the government with some of the sect leaders even demanding a military intervention by Israel.
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funny how their not terrorists, when they have us backing ibnt it
well news flash life isn’t fair! the world is full of have and have not’s and russia is a have not!
joos thinks that it is, including you, little rat 🐀. but only for them. for the all other is just mere a bitch.
russia – 4th biggest economy in the world. according to the us dominated world bank. bigger than japan. bigger than germany.
well, israel/joosa are/is main perpetrator in and behind all these genocides against arabs, no matter who they are whether christians, or muslims, it just doesn’t matter.
47 separate massacres . syrian failed state . tel-aviv war criminals coordinate these actions with glee . al-jolani states ” i have no control “. yet london-based groups can easily monitor . the path to open was with iran advances .
if massacres contunies 5m syrian refugees will go to turkey and germany. these radical isis terrorists come to syria from tacjik, uzbek,krgiz, kazak 3rd world scum fighters with the help of erdogan.
for all miracle, borders are closed now.
s.o.h.r. = mi6.