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Joshua Landis, an American academic who specializes in the Middle East and is an expert on Syria, warned on April 27 that members of the Alawite religious minority were still being targeted amid silence from the country’s Islamist-led interim government.
In a post to the X social network, the researcher said that 13 Alawite civilians were killed in Homs and four others were killed in the capital, Damascus, in the last 24 hours, describing the murders as “summary executions.
“President [Ahmad] Sharaa is not speaking out about this,” he added.
Landis also noted that over 50 Alawite women have been abducted over the last two months. This was previously reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The London-based monitoring group said that most of the abductions took place in Tartus and Latakia on the coast, the heartland of the Alawites, with the rest taking place in Hama and Homs.
“This is not to mention the 1,800 Alawite civilians killed on the coast in March, or the 8 Alawite villages north of Hama that have been completely cleansed,” he said.
“The government has done little if anything to stop these killings, many of which have been carried out by government forces,” he added.
The government crackdown in March displaced more than 20,000 Alawites to northern and eastern Lebanon with around 10,000 others taking shelter at Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia. The numbers of refugees continue to grow.
Landis also published a video showing gunmen walking between two Alawite neighborhoods in Homs and chanting: “Homs is for Sunnis, Alawites get out of it.”
The researcher warned that sectarian killings complicate efforts by Western government to lift sanctions or to affirm that the interim government is doing “the right thing.”
In addition to all the violations mentioned by Landis, the government continues to imprison thousands of former soldiers and officers, mostly Alawites, who laid down their arms before the fall of the Assad regime last December. Many have been already reported to be dead as a result of torture or even summary executions.
So far, the government has done nothing to stop violence against Alawites. There is also no real dialogue between the government and the group.
In the face of this situation, Sheikh Ghazal Ghazal, head of the Supreme Alawite Islamic Council in Syria and Diaspora, and several other prominent leaders of the group renewed calls for international protection earlier this month. Some went as far as demanding the right of self-determination for the coast, hinting at the possibility of separating from Syria.
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thanks to putin!!!
heheheh
i pray to god that they overthrow this gang in iran that has discarded its allies like used toilet paper. and to bring back the shah, who will demand that jolani be arrested and syria be divided into several smaller states. iraq people are now supporting pedophilia in iraq and i am not surprised that sudani (the main pedophile) invited jolani to iraq.
pray to god, and i will pray to the devil that al sudani lose completely in the iraqi elections, that syria is divided into several smaller sovereign states, and that jolani is imprisoned in the hague.
what is happening in syria is a serious crime and the only solution is to break the country into several smaller states. and not only because of the alawites, but also because of the kurds and druze. such terrorist nests must not remain whole.
we devil worshippers don’t like pedophiles either, so i’ll pray to the devil that both al sudani and jolani will spend the next year in prison for child abuse.
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thank you, i was thinking of cutting the link into small parts to get it through the censorship on this site. well, the link is already cut to pieces. basically, if you are in europe, you need to set the dns in your browser to cloudflare, if you comment etc, it should not have a comma and a period together.
if you live in europe, you set your dns to cloudflare in your browser, i know that too. i have worked with both wordpress and joomla. sudani gave jolani grain because they are both pedophiles and like to rape eight-year-old girls. in any case, saddam hussein would have been a better leader of iraq than this sudani.
gaddafi, assad and saddam were more sane and better leaders than the pedophile gangs that replaced them.
all these leaders were destroyed by nato’s sultan erdogan because he envied them, because the people trusted them at least a little. i hope all turkish alawites will participate in the elections and send erdogan to the dustbin of history. and i hope that all israeli druze will strike at erdogan’s gangs and liberate the syrian druze.
i hope netanyahu gives them bombs weighing over ten tons. that nothing will remain of this terrorist nest, only broken terrorist eggs from which nothing will hatch.
bring back the shah are you having a laugh, ?that prick was a us puppet and he would invite the israelis to occupy iran, behave yourself asshole.
don’t worry, everything goes according to the past negotiation between israel, russia, us and turkey.
so is russia complicit in the genocide? i hope that in iran they will finally remove the russian allies, return the shah to power, and the shah will demand that these jolani be arrested and imprisoned in the hague prision.
even the dead communist shapour bakhtiar, mummified, would lead iran better than the ayatollah. the russian mummy, of course, supports the genocide, because putler is of course an evil person, and if he weren’t evil, he wouldn’t have been enlisted in the kgb.
the kgb only hired psychopaths, so putler and jolana immediately liked each other.
they probably exchanged pedophile photos.
and of course, to close the russian bases because they are merely refugee camps and have collaborated with the jolani government.
i’ll pray the devil for that.
don’t forget to pray that tulsi gabbard will fix the iraqi baath and end this pedophile sudani gang in iraq.
tulsi is the only person in trump’s administration who isn’t a complete psychopath. others are completely mental defective and emotionally handicapped for a sense of solidarity.
the previous trump administration was even worse. they signed a deal with the taliban. putler signed a contract with erdogan. in kazan at the brics summit, they agreed to destroy syria.
trump killed soleimani, who was one of the few capable people who could have prevented this genocide that is happening now in syria. trump is a corrupt pedophile from epstein’s gang of pedophiles and a fraudulent businessman who would sell his own mother and daughter for a few dollars.
i will pray the devil that the alawites in turkey will finally realize that the erdogan government is to blame for everything that happened to the alawites in syria and that they will install a better president. preferably a pro-western candidate to cut off russian sea transport.
so i will pray too. russia must be isolated like a damaged electrical cable.
a damaged cable should be thrown in the trash because it can destroy electrical wiring, kill people and even animals. like putler ana jolani.
putler and jolana should be thrown into the grave.
corrupt psychopathic pedophiles putler and jolana should be thrown into an active volcano.
it is written correctly. maybe it would be better like this: the corrupt pedophile putler and his whore jolana should be shot like ceaușescu and his wife.
americans researchers claim water is wet, and ice is solid.
whats wrong with these alawites?
knowing long ago what would happen they dont organize, dont network and dont arm them on time, in a country where you can buy a ak47 for lausy 100 bucks on every corner.
wtf???