The number of fatalities from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the repressed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the followed revenge murders rose to more than 1,000 civilians, said a war surveillance group on Saturday and made it one of the most fatal outbursts of violence since the process of Syria, which began 14 years ago.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Great Britain, said that in addition to 745 civilians, 125 members of the government’s security forces and 148 militants were killed with armed groups.
The observatory also said that electricity and drinking water were cut off in large areas in the Latakia coast and many bakeries were closed.
The clashes that broke out on Thursday marked removed from power three months after the authority.
The government has declared that they reacted to attacks by the remains of Assad’s armed forces and accused “individual actions” for the brick -wing violence.
“Body were on the streets”
The revenge murders, which began on Friday by the Sunni Muslim armed men of the government against members of the minority of Alawite’s sect of Assad, are a big blow for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the faction that led the fall of the former government. Alawites formed a large part of Assad’s support base for decades.
The inhabitants of Alawitendarfers and cities talked to the Associated Press about murders, in which armed men shot the majority of them, on the streets or at the gates of their houses. Many Alawites houses were looted and then set on fire in various areas, two inhabitants of the Syrian coastal region told the AP from their hiding places.
They asked that their names were not made public for fear of being killed by armed men and added that thousands of people fled to the nearby mountains for security reasons.
The inhabitants of Baniyas, one of the worst worst of violence, said that corpses were scattered on the streets or were left unattroof in houses and on the roofs of the buildings, and nobody could collect them. A resident said that the armed men had prevented the residents from removing the corpses of five of their neighbors, who were killed on Friday.
Ali Sheha, 57, a resident of Baniyas who fled the violence with his family and his neighboring hours after the outbreak of violence, said that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues in a neighborhood of Baniyas who lived in Alawites were killed in their shops or in their houses.
Shehaha called the “Rachemorde” attacks of the Alawite reduction for the crimes committed by Assad’s government. Other residents said the armed men included foreign fighters and militants from neighboring villages and towns.
“It was very, very bad. Body was on the street” when he was in front of the escape, said Sheha and spoke of almost 20 kilometers of the city. He said that the armed men collected less than 100 meters from his residential building, happened to fired houses and residents and asked the residents for their ID cards, their religion and sect before killing them. He said the armed men had also burned a few houses and stolen cars and robbed houses.
Rami Abdurrahman, head of the Syrian observatory for human rights, said that Rachemorde stopped early Saturday.
“This was one of the largest massacres during the Syrian conflict,” said Abdurrahman of the murders of Alawi -Civilians.
The initial number of fatalities in the group was more than 200, which was then updated to more than 600. No official figures were published.
The residents of Alawites flee
Syria’s state agency cited an unnamed official of the Ministry of Defense with the statement that the government troops have regained control of a large part of Assad Loyalists’ areas. It added that the authorities have closed all the streets that lead to the coastal region “to prevent violations and to gradually restore stability”.
On Saturday morning, the corpses of 31 people were placed in a mass grave in the central village of Tuwaym the day before.
The residents were among the children killed and four women, said the AP photos of the body, which were draped in white cloth when they were lined with the mass grave.
The Lebanese legislature Haidar Nasser, who has assigned one of the two seats in the Alawite in parliament, said that people from Syria flee to Lebanon out of security. He said he had no precise numbers.
Nasser said that many people were protected from the Russian air base in Hmeimim, Syria, and added that the international community should protect Alawites who are Syrian citizens who are loyal to their country. He said that many Alawites have been released from their workplaces since Assad’s autumn and some former soldiers who have reconciled with the new authorities were killed.
Under Assad, Alawites held top items in the army and in the security authorities. The new government has blamed its loyalists for attacks against the country’s new security forces in recent weeks.
The recent clashes began when the state armed forces tried to capture a person sought near the coastal city of Jableh and were attacked according to the Assad Loyalist’s observatory.
