More than 600 dead after 2 days of conflict in Syria between Loyalist Assad, government forces

The number of two days of conflict between safety forces and loyalists of the worn Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and the killings of revenge that followed increased to more than 600, the war control group said on Saturday, which made him one of the most deadly violent works since the conflict in Syria began 14 years ago.

The conflicts, which broke out on Thursday, marked a great escalation in the challenge of the new Government in Damascus, three months after the rebels took over authority after removing Assad from power.

The government announced that they had responded to the attacks of the remains of Assad’s forces and blamed the “individual actions” for furious violence.

The killings of revenge that began on Friday with the Sunni Muslim armed with the loyal Government against Assad’s members of the Alawita sects are the main blow to Hayat Tahrura al-Sham, a faction that led the overthrow of the former Government. Alawites have been a large part of Assad’s support for decades.

The residents of the village and Alawite cities spoke with the Associated Pressure about the murders during which armed people shot Alawites, most of them men, on the streets or at the door of their homes. Many Alavita homes were robbed and then lit in different areas, two residents of the Syrian coastal region told AP from their hiding places.

They asked that their names were not publicly for fear of killing them armed, adding that thousands of people fled to a nearby mountain for security.

The residents of the city talk about crimes

Baniyas residents, one of the worst of the worst of the violence, said the bodies scattered on the streets or remained untreated in homes and on the roofs of buildings, and no one could collect them. One resident said armed people prevented residents from removing the bodies of five of their neighbors killed on Friday for hours in the immediate vicinity.

But Sheha, 57, a resident of Baniyas who escaped with his family and neighbors for hours after violence broke out on Friday, said that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues were in one neighborhood of Baniyas, who lived Alawiti, killed, some of them in their stores or in their homes.

Sheha called the attacks the “Alawit’s minority of Alawit’s avenging killings for crimes committed by Assad’s Government. Other residents said armed people were foreign fighters and militants from neighboring villages and cities.

“It was very bad. The bodies were on the streets,” she was running away, sheha said, speaking on the phone with almost 20 kilometers from the city. He said that armed people were collecting less than 100 meters from his apartment building, randomly fired at home and residents, and at least one incident he knew, he asked the inhabitants to check their identity cards to check their religion and their sect before killing them. He said armed people also burned some homes and stole cars and robbed houses.

The number of death cases has tripled

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in Britain, a war monitor, said 428 Alawita was killed in revenge attacks, except 120 Pro-Assad fighters and 89 from security forces. Head of Observatory Rami Abdurrahman said the killings of revenge stopped early on Saturday.

“This was one of the biggest massacre during the Syrian conflict,” Abdurrahman said of Alawite civilian killings.

The previous figure that the group gave was more than 200 dead. The official figures were not published.

Roads leading to the coastal region are closed

The Syrian State News Agency quoted an unnamed Ministry of Defense official that government forces have returned control over most of the Assad loyalist area. He added that the authorities closed all roads leading to the coastal region “to prevent violations and gradually restore stability.”

On Saturday morning, the bodies of 31 people killed in revenge the day earlier in the central village of Tuwaym were set up to rest in the mass grave, residents said.

Nine children and four women were killed, residents said, sending AP photographs of the body drawn into a white cloth while lined in a mass grave.

Lebanese legislator Haidar Nasser, who holds one of the two places separated in the Alavite sect in Parliament, said people were running out of Syria for security in Lebanon. He said he had no accurate numbers.

Nasser said that many people had taken refuge at the Russian Air Base in Hmeimima, Syria, adding that the international community should protect Alavita who are Syrian citizens loyal to their country. He said that from Assad’s fall, many Alavi were dismissed from work, and some former soldiers who reconciled with the new authorities were killed.

According to Assad, Alawites held top positions in the military and security agencies. The new government has blamed its loyalists for attacks on new Earth security forces in the last few weeks.

The latest conflicts began when the government forces tried to delay the requested person near the coastal town of Jableh, and were called by Loyaltists Assad, according to Observatory.