Syria witnessed the deadliest bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad’s expulsion last December. From March 6th to 10th, it takes just four days Over 800 people According to Tartus and Latakia’s coastal provinces Syrian Human Rights Network (SNHR).
But who killed them, and why? Just as graphic videos of the atrocities flooded social media, so did the misinformation. Tucker Carlson I incorrectly claimed Christians were slaughtered – claim It was rejected Syrian Christian leader himself. However, while Christians were not genocide, another religious minority was the Alawians.
Through partnership with Peace Communication Center (CPC), Free Press We obtained exclusive footage and spoke to survivors, witnesses and analysts to stitch together what actually happened on Syria’s northeast coast.
It all began on March 6th, when Assad’s loyalists launched a coordinated attack on the security forces of the new government in the coastal region, killing dozens of people. In response, tens of thousands of government forces and armed groups rushed to the coast to counter the rebellion, according to the network of Syrian human rights founders. Fadel Abdulghany.
What followed was a massacre. Abdulgany said Free Press Of the 803 deaths his organization recorded, the overwhelming majority were civilians and armed combatants, including women and children. Many of them were run on the spot. And he said most of these atrocities were committed by the very forces that arrived to suppress the rebellion.
“The question is, who was heading to the shore?” Abdulgany said.
To answer that, it is worth looking at who lives there. Although ethnically mixed, Syrian coastal states are primarily Alawian. They are from the same sect as the Assad family. Alawis is deeply embedded in Assad’s regime, and committed some of the worst atrocities during Syria’s 14-year civil war, explained CPC Michael Naham. After Assad’s collapse, the new government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa and attempted to bridge the sectarian divisions tried to avoid a complete revenge.
“This created a huge reservoir of malicious intent for a sect that had been searching for outlets since the collapse of the administration on December 8th,” Naham said. Frankly, many Syrians were not impressed by Alshara’s desire for reconciliation. They wanted revenge.
The March 6th collision was a match that set the Hughes on fire. The magnitude of the violence was incredible. The Alawian village was destroyed. The whole family was wiped out.
“So far, I have lost 23 relatives,” one man said, choking tears. “We don’t know what to say. We may all be killed.”
Another Alawite said that his father and uncle were among dozens who were executed in a village called Al Sharfatya in the Latakian countryside.
“An unknown group entered their home and fired them without mercy,” he said. “There is no mercy for the elderly men and the sick.”
The perpetrators of these murders came from multiple factions. The government has acknowledged the existence of “uncontrollable elements” among fighter jets that ignored strict orders not to attack civilians. There were also “foreign factions and individuals who picked up their arms,” said Abdulgany of Snhr. However, according to human rights monitors and eyewitness testimony, some of the worst atrocities were carried out by the Syrian Army (SNA). Human rights abuse.
The government is currently in a hurry to contain the fallout. President Alshara vowed to establish an independent investigation committee and bring the perpetrators to justice. “We assert that anyone involved in civilian bloodshed will not be tolerant and tolerant,” he said. Address of March 11thhis first since the massacre.
There’s an arrest It’s already begunSecurity forces committed atrocities on fighter planes that had filmed themselves.
However, the underlying tension remains. “The long-term drivers of that fight are still there,” warned CPC’s Michael Naham.
“The rest of Assad militia, which appears to be backed by both Iran and Hezbollah, appears to have had its main goal of encouraging sectarian overreaction.
Although Iran denied involvement, Syrian Defense Ministry claims that Hezbollah had supplied weapons to Assad’s loyalists. Depriving sectarian violence has long been part of the Iranian playbook, Nahum added:
“May God stop it. A man who has lost 23 relatives, lets us reach where no innocent persons need to die. “We ask the reasonable people of Syria to stand together in general and act as brothers. Please deliver this message. Please, please, I beg you.”
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