“Let’s massacre you, you and your parents”

There are reports of executions such as “form of entertainment”: violence has been back to a place from which it has not been out for years – Syria

“Armed men walked from house to house to attack people as a form of entertainment.”

_{by Salem MostafaCNN}

CNN – Armed men to the Syrian government have carried out executions on the ground and spoke of purifying the country, according to eyewitnesses and videos, giving a horrible image of a repression against the remnants of the Old Assad regime that became community killings.

Syria watched the worst outbreak of violence since the dismissal of former President Bashar Al-Assad late last year after gunmen had invaded the hearts of the Alauítas on Thursday, as the Syrian authorities said it was an attempt to end the insurrection of the still-loyal rebels to the former government.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (RSDH), a UK -based independent control group, said at least 642 people died in violence, including many civilians who were killed after government forces committed “generalized executions” of young people and adults.

Syria’s interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa blamed the remnants of Assad forces for violence on Sunday and said his government would be responsible for all those involved in civilians’ death.

“Let’s not tolerate the remnants of Assad’s forces,” he said. “They only have one option: surrender immediately to the law.”

He also appealed to national unity, describing the clashes as “expected challenges.” His office ordered committees to investigate and dialogue with the populations of the affected areas. CNN contacted the Syrian government to comment on the matter.

‘They declared Jihad against us’

“Armed men walked from house to house attacking people as a form of entertainment … They declared them to Jihad from all over Syria,” a resident of the city of Latakia, who preferred to keep anonymity for worrying about the safety of his family that is still in the city.

The resident, who fled the city on Saturday after 30 years of life, told CNN that he began to see corpses on the streets on Tuesday.

“People were running away, those who couldn’t get killed,” Bashir told Latakia resident to CNN. “My 70 -year -old uncle, a history teacher, and his 60 -year -old wife were killed in cold blood at home,” he said. Both were Alauítas and lived in the city of Baniyas, in the western province of Tartous.

“I fear for my life and the lives of my two children,” added Bashir.

Armed men began to go massive to Latakia and Tartous on Thursday night after reports of Assad’s loyal attacks against the forces of the new Syrian government parked in the cities of Alauitas.

Rasha Sadeq, a 35-year-old Alauíta mother, a mother of three and resident in Homs, told CNN that she received a phone call from her brother’s partner, informing her that her mother and two brothers had been killed by armed groups loyal to the new government in Baniyas.

“I was constantly in contact with my family; I was told that there were sounds of fire, ”he said, adding that his family had said that he had also heard religious songs. His family was civil and not pro-Assad, he revealed.

The Assad family, a member of the Alauite minority sect, ruled Syria for more than half a century, until Bashar was deposed in December by Sunni Islamic militants who sought to reformulate the country’s political and sectarian order. The group, led by the former Al Qaeda Ahmad al-Sharaa militant, promised political equality and representation of the various sects of Syria’s various ethnic and religious populations.

Security remains a major challenge for the new administration. The Alauítes of Syria – about 10% of the population – were prominent in the Assad regime, and although many Alauítas have delivered their weapons since December, many others have not done so.

The attacks began this week, after news came that the loyals ASSAD had ambushed and killed members of the Hayat Tahrir al -Sham – the rebel group that led the rebellion that deposed the ancient Syrian leader.

“The loyal to Assad will not be in the villages they attacked, these (gunmen) were killing normal people in these villages,” Bashir told CNN.

A source from the Syrian government told the state press that “individual violations” were perpetrated after “large disorganized crowds” moved to the area.

The Syrian government told CNN on Saturday that at least 150 members of their security forces had been killed since Thursday and 300 had been captured in clashes with Assad loyals.

CNN cannot independently confirm the number of victims.

“A battle for purification”

Several videos appeared on social networks and show trains of armed men in vehicles that went to the cities of Latakia and Tartous during the period before acts of violence.

“It was the battle of liberation. Now it’s a battle for purification (from Syria), ”says a narrator who accompanies the armed trains. It is not known exactly when the video was filmed.

“For the Alauítas, we will massacre you and your parents,” says a man of military uniform with Egyptian accent, in one of the videos filmed at night.

“Everyone will come out with weapons, let’s show you the Sunni (strength).” CNN could not geographically locate the video, which seems to show a large number of vehicles.

Quickly began to emerge reports of horrible acts of violence. Videos geolocalized by CNN showed dozens of corpses extended on the floor of Al Mukhtareyah village while people cried.

“These are the alauitic pigs,” hears a voice to say before shooting on an apparently lifeless body on open ground in another video. It is not clear where or when the shooting took place.

Another video that circulates on Syrian social networks shows a man dressed in military uniforms approaching a house in a motorcycle and telling his resident to look at the camera before shooting him.

“I caught up, sassy,” says the striker laughing. “Are you still dead yet? You’re not dead yet, ”says the perpetrator, before shooting again.

In another case, a man with a military uniform asks a prisoner to leave a building and then tell him to bark like a dog before killing him.

CNN has not been able to check any of these two videos, but are among the many that have emerged in recent days, apparently showing filmed murders.

The attacks raise major questions about the new Syrian administration, which has made efforts to distance themselves from his jihadist past.

“What has happened three months ago to this day is equivalent to what the Assad have made us in five decades. Assad were criminals and these (new rulers) are also criminals, ”said Bashir.

Nadeen Ebrahim, Allegra Goodwin and Frankie Vetch contributed to this article.

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