The number of victims in the conflict between the Sunnis and the Suwajdá Drúza reached 300. The government has commissioned the committee investigation committee and infer liability.
On Thursday, the Syrian government set up a committee to investigate the July violence among ethnic groups in the province of Suwajdá. In the predominantly dials inhabited by the region in the southwest of Syria, at least 1300 people died in the fighting. TASR reports this based on Reuters report.
In his decree of 31 July, the Minister of Justice commissioned a seven -member committee of judges, lawyers and military officials to investigate the circumstances that led to violence.
The Committee should investigate all reported cases of attacks against civilians. Anyone who can participate in violence should be brought to justice. The results of the investigation will be presented within three months.
The ceasefire was mediated by the US
Ethnic violence in Suwajdá broke out on July 13, when members of the Sunni Bedouin clans and Drúzski militants came to the dispute. The Syrian government subsequently sent its troops to the area to end the fighting among the opposing groups. However, a large part of the soldiers stood on the side of the Bedouins. Israel also participated in the conflict, declaring the support of the Drus minority and attacked several Syrian army positions. The fighting ended the ceasefire mediated by the United States, on the basis of which the forces of the Syrian government from the province of Suwajda withdrew.
The UN estimates that at least 176,000 people have been displaced in the region from mid -July. Human rights organizations report that the conflict has claimed at least 1300 victims, approximately 200 of them executed without a trial. Public services in many cities collapse and in hospitals lack staff as well as basic medical supplies. Water and electricity supplies are also insufficient.
A similar investigative committee of the Syrian government has established the massacres of members of the Muslim religious group of Alavites, which occurred in March in Syrian coastal provinces Lazikia and Tartús. More than 1400 people died. According to the Committee of the Syrian Army Committee, they did not give orders to murder civilians. However, the Syrian Alavites, the Supreme Council of the Syrian Alavites, who directly blames the government in Damascus, disagrees with this statement.
