Activists report more than a thousand dead in Syria

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Activists report more than a thousand dead in Syria

The country is shaken by severe fights three months after the fall of long-term rulers al-assadically. Activists report massacres and call the international community for action.

According to activists, more than 1,000 people have already fallen victim to the outbreak of violence in Syria between supporters of the fallen long-term ruler Bashar al-Assad and the new rulers. Security forces of the Islamist transitional government have caused real “massacre” among members of the religious minority of the Alawites, which also includes ex-President Al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in the evening among the killed are 745 civilians.

The bloodshed had started on Thursday. According to the new rulers, armed supporters of the fallen Assad government had attacked security forces near the coastal city of Dschabla in the province of Latakia, who is mostly inhabited by Alawites. The Institute for War Studies (ISW) in Washington wrote to be coordinated by the insurgents. On Friday, the transitional government moved larger troops to the region. The government troops used artillery guns, tanks and rocket launchers, it said.

A residents said that fear and horrors are widespread, especially among the Alawites. “There are many attacks and killings due to religious affiliation. Thefts also come,” he said. Among the fatalities are also women and children, reported the Observatory for Human Rights, based in Great Britain, who pursues the conflict on a network of informants. She spoke of massacres in 29 locations of the Latakia, Tartus, Hama and Homs governments and accused the Islamist transitional government of war crimes.

The supporters of the fallen al-Assad would try to use this murders to mobilize minority groups, according to a report by the ISW. Especially among the Alawites, the feeling that the interim government of the new Islamist rulers suppresses and excludes them. For temporary president Ahmed al-Sharaa, the arguments are the first big exam. The former rebel chief had contacted the population on Friday evening and declared that the ex-government’s remains had tried “testing the new Syria” with their attacks.

The observation center in Great Britain called on the international community for urgent action and called for the sending of experts to document human rights violations. In addition, she appealed to the Syrian authorities in the capital Damascus to be responsible for the reported executions. In Latakia there were also failures in electricity and water supply. Bakeries would have stopped production and markets were closed, which made it more and more difficult for the population to take care of, it said.

Syria’s neighboring countries are worried about the difficult security situation in the region: The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense and the heads of the intelligence officers of Turkey, Jordan and Iraq are therefore meeting in the Jordan capital Amman with their Syrian colleagues to talk about security threats, struggle for terrorism and organized crime, as Turkish diplomatic sources told. The extremists of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) are also considered a focus of the talks. Thousands of IS fighters are recorded in prisons in northeastern Syria.