Berut – The two -day clash between the Syrian President Bashar’s Assad.
The clash that broke out on Thursday increased the challenge against the new government in Damascus, three months after the rebels removed Assad from power.
The government has said that they were responding to the remnants of the forces of Assad and convicted “personal actions” for enormous violence.
The murder of the Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the government against the members of the minority Alavite sect of Asad on Friday was a major blow to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which led to the overthrow of the former government. Alavites have created a large part of Assad’s support base for decades.
Alavite villages and residents of towns talked about the killings with the Associated Press, during which the gunmen shot Alavites, most of them were men, on the streets or at the door of their homes. Two residents of the Syrian coastal region told AP from their hid that many homes of Alavites were robbed and then set fire to different areas.
They asked that their names would not be disclosed for fear of being killed by gunmen, and added that thousands of people fled to the nearby mountains for security.
Banes’ residents, one of the most hit towns of violence, said the bodies were spread across the streets or unbearable to the roofs of houses and buildings, and no one was able to collect them. One resident said the gunmen prevented the residents from removing the bodies of their five neighbors for hours, which killed the residents in the nearest range on Friday.
Ali Sheha, 57, who fled with his family and neighbors on Friday, said that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues where Alavites lived, were killed in his shop or at his house.
Shiha described the Alavite minority attacks as “revenge” for the crimes committed by Assad’s government. Other residents said the gunmen included foreign fighters and terrorists of neighboring villages and towns.
“It was very bad. The bodies were on the streets, “While he was fleeing, Shiha said, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away from the city by phone. He said that gunmen are assembling less than 100 meters from their apartment part -building, firing on homes and residents, and in at least one incident, they know, asking residents to investigate their religion and their cult before killing for their ID. He said that the gunmen also burned some houses and stole the car and robbed the houses.
Britain -based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, War Monitor, said that 428 Alawas have been killed in a revenge attack in addition to 89 of the opposite fighters and security forces. Observatory chief player Abdurhaman said that the murder of the change was stopped early on Saturday.
Abdurhamman said of the murder of Alavite citizens, “This was the biggest massacre during the Syrian conflict.”
No official statistics have been released.
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