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The clashes began Thursday and marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents took authority after removing Assad from power and had him fleeing to Russia for refuge.
The government has said that they were responding to attacks from remnants of Assad’s forces and blamed “individual actions” for the rampant violence. MSNBC and "The View" blamed it on Trump.
The revenge killings that started Friday by Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the government against members of Assad’s minority Alawite sect are a major blow to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the faction that led the overthrow of the former government. Alawites made up a large part of Assad’s support base for decades.
Residents of Alawite villages and towns spoke to the Associated Press about killings whereby gunmen belonging to the "religion of peace" shot Alawites, mostly men, in the streets or at the gates of their homes. Many homes of Alawites were looted and then set on fire in different areas, two residents of Syria’s coastal region told the AP from their hideouts. These acts of terror appeared to resemble those of whoat Hamas did to Israelis on October 7, 2023, but without the rapes, beheadings, kidnappings, and immolation of women and children.
The clashes began Thursday and marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents took authority after removing Assad from power and had him fleeing to Russia for refuge.
The government has said that they were responding to attacks from remnants of Assad’s forces and blamed “individual actions” for the rampant violence. MSNBC and "The View" blamed it on Trump.
The revenge killings that started Friday by Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the government against members of Assad’s minority Alawite sect are a major blow to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the faction that led the overthrow of the former government. Alawites made up a large part of Assad’s support base for decades.
Residents of Alawite villages and towns spoke to the Associated Press about killings whereby gunmen belonging to the "religion of peace" shot Alawites, mostly men, in the streets or at the gates of their homes. Many homes of Alawites were looted and then set on fire in different areas, two residents of Syria’s coastal region told the AP from their hideouts. These acts of terror appeared to resemble those of whoat Hamas did to Israelis on October 7, 2023, but without the rapes, beheadings, kidnappings, and immolation of women and children.
Maybe it's a jihad thing.
Those in hiding asked that their names not be made public out of fear of being killed by gunmen, adding that thousands of people have fled to nearby mountains for safety.
Residents of Baniyas, one of the towns worst hit by the violence, reported that bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, making it impossible to collect them. One resident said that the gunmen prevented residents for hours from removing the bodies of five of their neighbors killed Friday at close range.
Ali Sheha, a 57-year-old resident of Baniyas who fled with his family and neighbors hours after the violence broke out Friday, told the AP that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues in one neighborhood of Baniyas where Alawites lived, were killed, some of them in their shops, or in their homes.
Sheha called the attacks “revenge killings” of the Alawite minority for the crimes committed by Assad’s government. Other residents said the gunmen included foreign fighters, and militants from neighboring villages and towns.
SOHR said that 428 Alawites were killed in revenge attacks in addition to 120 pro-Assad fighters and 89 from security forces. The Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman said that revenge killings stopped early Saturday.
“This was one of the biggest massacres during the Syrian conflict,” Abdurrahman said about the killings of Alawite civilians.
Those in hiding asked that their names not be made public out of fear of being killed by gunmen, adding that thousands of people have fled to nearby mountains for safety.
Residents of Baniyas, one of the towns worst hit by the violence, reported that bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, making it impossible to collect them. One resident said that the gunmen prevented residents for hours from removing the bodies of five of their neighbors killed Friday at close range.
Ali Sheha, a 57-year-old resident of Baniyas who fled with his family and neighbors hours after the violence broke out Friday, told the AP that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues in one neighborhood of Baniyas where Alawites lived, were killed, some of them in their shops, or in their homes.
Sheha called the attacks “revenge killings” of the Alawite minority for the crimes committed by Assad’s government. Other residents said the gunmen included foreign fighters, and militants from neighboring villages and towns.
SOHR said that 428 Alawites were killed in revenge attacks in addition to 120 pro-Assad fighters and 89 from security forces. The Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman said that revenge killings stopped early Saturday.
“This was one of the biggest massacres during the Syrian conflict,” Abdurrahman said about the killings of Alawite civilians.
If they aren't killing Christians and Jews, they're killing each other.
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