Spiritual minority group Alawites, who have been the goal of the continuous punishment deaths in Syria, narrated the suffering of being a testimony to the disaster that has resulted in the death of over 745 in the country.
With one victim describing it as the “roads full of dead”, another recollected how Assad loyalists “gathered all the people on the roof and opened flames on them”.
For two weeks, Rihab Kamel and her home cowered in their bath, terrified, as armed people stormed their community in Baniyas, targeting Syria’s Alawite majority. The southern city, a stronghold of the Syrian group, has been engulfed in the worst crime since previous president Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December.
” We turned off the signals and hid. When we were able to flee our village of Al-Qusour, we found the streets full of carcasses”, Kamel told AFP, adding,” What violence did the children commit? Are they also supporters of the ( toppled ) regime”?
The violence erupted last Thursday after gunmen devoted to Assad attacked Syria’s fresh security forces. The resulting conflicts left dozens dead on both edges. The Arab Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 745 Shiite civilians were killed in Latakia and Tartus regions by security forces and allied parties.
Studies of large coffins and deaths
In the port town of Latakia, witnesses reported that armed parties abducted and executed Alawite citizens. Among them was Yasser Sabbouh, the mind of a state-run historical center, whose body was eventually dumped outside his house.
Samir Haidar, a 67-year-old native of Baniyas, recounted the horrific loss of two sons and a brother, killed by equipped groups marching properties. Despite being an Alawite, Haidar had been a communist opposition figure under the Assads and spent over a decade in jail.
” They gathered all the people on the roof and opened fire on them”, Haidar said, adding,” My brother survived because he hid, but my brother was killed along with all the people in the building”.
Fears of violence amid democratic transition
Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who led the Islamist party Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the rude that toppled Assad, has called for “national cohesion and legal serenity”. Speaking at a minaret in Damascus, he expressed desires for peace, stating,” God ready, we will be able to sit together in this region”.
Despite these claims, Syria’s Alawite homeland remains on advantage, fearing punishment for the Assad mother’s years of brutal rule. Some people report organized deaths in villages and towns along the beach.
