Illustrative image. (The Syrian Arab News Agency)
More than a week after the Syrian interim government announced the end of its deadly crackdown on the Syrian coast, civilians, mainly from the Alawite minority group, are still being killed there.
The crackdown began on March 6 when the Alawites rebelled on the coast, their heartland, following months of violations by government forces.
The Alawites, Syria’s largest minority, are an offshoot of Islam Shiite. The family of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad belongs to the sect.
After facing international pressure, the Syrian government announced that all operations on the coast were over by March 10 and formed an investigation committee. However, the killings are reportedly still ongoing, although at a much slower pace.
On March 20, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported the death of 16 civilians in the governorate of Tartus and 41 others in the governorate of Latakia.
The latest killings brought the toll from the crackdown to 1,614, according to London-based monitoring group, which has so far documented 62 massacres on the coast and in the nearby governorates of Hama and Homs. An additional 259 rebels and 273 government fighters were also killed during the recent escalation.
In its latest report, the SOHR noted that a large number of civilians are still missing and many bodies are still in hospitals across the coast waiting to be identified.
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The killings displaced at least 13,000 Alawites to northern and eastern Lebanon with more that 8,000 others taking shelter at Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base near the city of Jableh in the countryside of Latakia.
The Alawites, who apparently lost all trust in the Islamist-led government, have been calling for international protection. While the United Nations Security Council adopted a Russian-American statement condemning the killings and calling for accountability, a military intervention remains unlikely.
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sohr = mi6.
jewlani = zio tool.
the eu has just given 2.5 billion euros to jewlani.
the uk’s david lammy has only given him a measly £50 million of taxpayer money.
this is disgraceful!
doesn’t he know genocide and mass murder don’t come cheap?
only 50 million? he must be an antisemitic nazi.
why doesn’t bibi get involved, which has all the knowledge and equipment? bibi should protect this unfortunate team because they might be useful to him. maybe in hamas’ trenches… or when cleaning up the kibbutzim…
to busy doing the genocide dance
chumpo is also a notorious anti semite. he has only agreed to fight 10 wars for shlomo and give him $10 trillion. unless he agrees immediately to fight infinity wars for shlomo, and give shlomo every single dollar that exists in the jewsa, aipac should move to impeach him and replace him with a mossad dual national (there are plenty to choose from in his administration.)
open funding of internationally listed terrorist organizations .
after seeing how the palestinians were being treated, theses saa guys should have realized surrendering to these monsters would be pretty much suicide.
thanks to syria’s “great ally” russia/putin!!!
heheheh
that’s because allies are worth exactly as much to putler and brandon as a condom. putler and brandon caused a lot of good guys to go to grave. i hope that dump destroys the taliban and that sami sadat is installed as the president of afghanistan by dump. the betrayal of brandon and putler is paid for with the innocent blood of the unfortunate heroes and their children.
brandon’s dirty treason clean be cleared up by dump if he installed sami sadat as president of afghanistan. but putler is just a traitorous bastard who pretends to be more than just a russian version of brandon.
is amerikunt upset—no cookie in your nursing home?
sami sadat said that the taliban would repeat 9/11 if they had the chance and that they were a dangerous terrorist gang.
putin = biden. in his corrupt malice, he betrayed his allies. the taliban haven’t changed in all these years, so why does putler think isis will? israeli and greek media report that 8,000 alawites and catholics have been killed. ht tp s://ji had wa tc h.o rg/20 25/ 03/ w hat -the -alaw ites-suffere d-was-much- much-worse-than-reported
for putler and brandon, allies are worth as much as a condom. after use, they are discarded and he begins to give money to enemies.
as an amerikunt hillbilly headchoppewr we naturally approve of the new improved head chopper regime in syria
the hts is still listed as a terrorist organization by the us , so they do nothing . bombs to murder precious innocent palestinians the priority . gaza is simply a death camp . the west bank story is similar with policing and home destruction . israel loves it’s racist ideology .