Ahmed al-Charaa promises to continue the managers of the killings-Liberation
The acting Syrian president, Ahmed al-Charaa, promised on the evening of Sunday March 9 to continue the managers of « The bloodshed of civilians » In an outbreak of unprecedented violence since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The UNWashington and other capitals condemned these killings, calling on the Syrian authorities to end it. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), which has a large network of sources in Syria, « The total number of liquidated civilian martyrs is 973, including women and children », evoking « Murders, summary executions and ethnic cleaning operations ».
The violence was triggered by a bloody attack on March 6 of supporters of the fallen president against security forces in Jablé, near the city of Lattaquié, cradle of the Alawite minority, a branch of Shiite Islam from which came The Assad clan. The authorities then sent reinforcements to the neighboring provinces of Lattaquié and Tartous, to support operations of the security forces against the pro-Assad. At least 481 members of the security forces and pro-assad fighters were also killed, according to the OSDH. The authorities have not provided an official assessment.
Calling for a speech in a damask mosque at « Preserve national unity and civil peace », Ahmed al-Charaa announced the formation of a « Independent commission of inquiry » on « Exactions against civilians » in order to identify those responsible for them and « Translate into justice ». « We will ask for accounts (…) without indulgence, from anyone involved in the bloodshed of civilians », He then promised in a video broadcast by the official Syrian news agency Sana. « Today, we are guaranteeing all of the Syrian people and all confessions, and we protect everyone in the same way », On the other hand, the Syrian diplomacy chief, Assaad al-Chaibani, on the move to Amman assured.
Ahmed al-Charaa, then at the head of Radical Sunni Islamist Group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS)-classified as a terrorist by several countries, including the United States-, led the rebel coalition that made Assad flee in Moscow on December 8. Since his arrival at the head of a multi -ethnic and multi -confessional country, torn apart by more than thirteen years of civil war, the man has strives to obtain support from the international community and reassure minorities. During a sermon on Sunday, the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, John X, noted that the massacres had also targeted « Many innocent Christians ». The majority of victims « Were innocent and disarmed civilians including women and children », he said.
The Kurdish autonomous administration of Syria, which controls large sides of the East and the North of the country, also condemned « Practices (which) bring us back to a black era that the Syrian people do not want to relive ». The head of Israeli diplomacy, Gideon Saar, has exhorted Europe to « Stop granting legitimacy » to Syrian transition power « To the well -known terrorist past ».
Sunday, the Interior Ministry announced the sending of « Additional reinforcements » in Qadmous, in the province of Tartous, where the security forces « Traque the last faithful to the old regime ». The Sana news agency reported « Violent clashes » in Taanita, a mountain village in the same sector where fled « Many war criminals » of the previous power, protected by these same « Assad faithful ». According to Aron Lund, from the Century International reflection center, the outbreak of violence testifies to the « Government fragility », relying « On radical jihadists who consider the Alaouites as enemies of God ».
In Damascus, the security forces intervened to disperse a sit-in protest against the killings after the irruption of a counter-mailver demanding a « Sunni State », enamelled with slogans hostile to the Alawites.
