The bloodshed in Syria continues almost two months after the fall of the Assad regime. The motives for ever new acts of violence are mainly revenge and retaliation. As activists now report, at least 35 people have been arbitrarily and with “unprecedented brutality” brutalized and executed by the new Islamic rulers over the past three days.
Most of those executed were former officials in the government of deposed Bashar al-Assad. Dozens of members of local armed groups have been arrested for their involvement in “security operations” in the Homs region, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
The official Sana news agency had previously reported that the new rulers accused members of a “criminal group” of posing as “members of the security services” during a security operation to commit unspecified “violations.”
Old bills are now being paid
The gunmen committed “acts of reprisal” against members of the Alawite minority, to which Assad belongs. They took advantage of “the state of chaos, the proliferation of weapons and their relations with the new rulers” to “settle old scores,” according to the British-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources in Syria.
Mass arrests, abuses, executions
The observers spoke of “arbitrary mass arrests, horrific abuses, attacks on religious symbols, desecration of corpses and arbitrary and brutal executions of civilians.” These were carried out with “unprecedented brutality and violence” in several villages in the Homs region.
Brutal retaliation against Assad’s henchmen
In December, fighters led by the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham captured Damascus, ending ruler Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long rule in Syria. The new rulers appear moderate. However, members of the Alawite minority fear retaliation for decades of crimes committed during the Assad clan’s rule.
Source: Krone
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