Most civilians were executed by national security forces or allied groups
Syrian’s new authorities in former President Bashar Al-Assad’s bastion caused the death of 1,068 civilians, the majority members of the Alauita minority, according to a new balance sheet from the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (OSDH).
Most civilians were executed by national security forces or allied groups, according to the UK -based OSDH, but with a vast network of sources in Syria.
The unprecedented violence since the Fall of Assad on December 8 was triggered by a bloody attack last Thursday of former president’s supporters against security forces in Jablé, near the western city of Latakia, an ancient bastion of the deposed government and cradle of the Alauíta community, a branch of the Shiite Islam descending the Assad clan.
Authorities then sent reinforcements to the provinces of Latakia and Tartus on the western coast, where security forces launched major hunting operations to the former president, who fled to Russia, one of his regime’s allies, along with Iran.
Today, the Syrian Ministry of Defense has announced the end of military operation in the west of the country.
“We announce the end of the military operation (…) following the success of our forces to achieve all the fixed objectives,” said the ministry spokesman, Hassan Abdel Ghani, quoted by the official agency Sana.
On Sunday, sources of the Danish Presidency of the UN Security Council indicated that this United Nations agency is gathered today of emergency at the request of several Member States to discuss the massacre in Syria.
