Government troops killed 340 civilians in two days, reports Syrian opposition
The organization added that victims are mostly from the ranks of the Alavs minority, including former President Assad.
SOHR has already reported several civilians' massacres in various areas on the Mediterranean coast. « The vast majority of victims were executed by the components connected to the Ministry of Defense and the Interior, » she said. According to the organization, women and children are among the executed.
The interim Syrian President Ahmed Shara said on Friday that attacks against civilians would be strictly punished. However, he did not mention the news of massacres, DPA pointed out.
On Thursday, the Syrian state media quoted a source from the Ministry of the Interior, according to which in the government operation to suppress the armedmen associated with the overthrow Assad's regime, there was a « individual misconduct » now the ministry writes, Reuters writes.
The regime of President Bashar Assad collapsed on December 8, 2024, when Islamist insurgents from Haját Tahrir Aš-Sham (HTS) at the end of November launched a lightning offensive against government troops. Assad took office in the country in 2000 after the death of his father Hafiz Assad, who ruled the country since 1971.
The new government claims that it wants to respect religious minorities and that it does not want to take revenge to representatives of the former regime. At the same time, however, he wants to put in court people who have committed crimes under the former regime and violated the rights of the Syrians.
