UN calculated – activists: more than 200 dead in fighting in Syria

According to the serious fighting in western Syria, the temporary President Ahmed al-Sharaa to surrender to the Assad supporters. The Alawi hunter should arise “before it’s too late,” Sharaa said in a speech on Telegram on Friday.

93 Security forces and 120 attackers dead
Among the dead are at least 93 safety forces of the interim government and 120 armed attackers, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Saturday. The battles focus on the Latakia Governorate, a stronghold of the religious minority of the Alawwites, which also belongs to Assad.

After attacking by Assad sympathizers on Thursday, the fighting escalated on Friday. In the provincial capital, according to the Observation Center, there were also battles with dead on both sides near two hospitals. The number of victims could continue to increase.

Private weapons must be prevented
According to the Observation Center in the UK, which strives for a network of informants, more than 160 citizens, including women and children, would have been executed by hunters of the new rulers. On Friday, temporary president Sharaa said that everyone who has committed attacks on citizens would be punished hard. However, he did not mention any reports about slaughter.

In his speech, Sharaa continued: ‘You turned against all Syrians and made an unforgivable mistake. The counter -strike has come. “At Telegram, Sharaa also said that the transitional government would continue to work for only state representatives to have weapons. There will no longer be uncontrolled weapons of weapons. The Islamist transitional government spoke about a” large -scale “commitment that goals on” the remains of Assad’s milities and their supporters “.

Worry about executions
Regarding the executions, the observation center said: “The vast majority of the victims were carried out by elements related to the defense and the Ministry of the Interior.” Both ministries would be under the control of the authorities led by the Islamists. Video -recordings published by the Observation Center and activists showed dozens of corpses stacked in civil clothing for a house. Moreover, blood stains and crying women were seen. Further recordings showed men in military uniforms who shot people up close. The observation center receives its information from a network of activists in Syria, which usually cannot be checked independently.

The committee of inquiry for Syria calls the UN in a placement to protect the civilian population in Syria:

The UN Syria-found Geir Pedersen was concerned about “very disturbing reports about civilian casualties”. He called on all parties to remember promoting actions that “destabilize Syria and endanger a credible and integrative political transition”.

AlaWites on the defensive
Fighters, led by the Islamist HTS militia, had conquered Damascus at the beginning of December and ended the decades of Assad at the head of a secular police and secret timetable. Since the acquisition, the new Syrian leadership has repeatedly assured that he wants to protect the minorities in the country. The Alawwites, however, fear retaliation against their community, both as a religious minority and because of their loyalty to the Assad family.

The HTs came from the Al-Nusra front, the Syrian branch of the Al Qaida Terror Network. It is largely classified by the West as a “terrorist organization” – even if it tries to give itself a new, moderate image.

300,000 refugees from abroad are back to Syria
In the meantime, the UN -Hochkommissariat (UNHCR) refugee announced that more than 300,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country since the fall of Assad. In addition, 900,000 Syrian domestic domestic people also returned to Syria, said UNHCR spokeswoman Céline Schmitt on Friday during a press conference from Damascus due to video selection. A total of 1.2 million people have returned since the beginning of December. However, it is still “the largest refugee crisis in the world”.

In the meantime, Switzerland decided on Friday with immediate entrance to ACTIVA of CHF 99 million (around CHF 104 million), according to a statement from the government, “about two -thirds of the former Assad government and their entourage are not available”. In this way it must be ensured that “these assets, which may have been obtained illegally, remain blocked, regardless of developments in the sanction area”. If the illegal origin of the funds is running, Bern wants to “repay them in favor of the Syrian population”.