Sirens Schetter, a truck of armed men who behind in his wake, the Black Sport Utility Vehicle that hit Shark Handlike through the Syrian city of Ashrafieh Sahnaya, was impossible to miss.
Government Forces had recaptured the control of the armed groups that the city changed in a sectarian battlefield for two days this week, Have to kill and expose to everyone to see the new Syrian leaders’ shaky grip About security. Now representatives from the government had arrived to promise peace to a skeptical city.
In an airy, echoing religious meeting room, two civil servants were shoulder in a shoulder with white leaders of the Druse religious minority in traditional red white hats, talking about unity.
“We are all in one ship,” said Jameel Mudawwar, the top official of the area. “If it sinks, forbid God, we will all sink.”
The words were not new, but this time they came with action.
The most important Druse -Milities of Syria, which have a strategic strip of South Syria in the vicinity of Israel, resist a push By the new Islamic government that is folded in the national army, for fear that there would be endangered.
But when the bloodshed was mounted this week, local Druse leaders in Ashrafieh Sahnaya went the other way. In exchange for government concessions, including promises to investigate abuses that were committed during the collisions, they agreed to give up in their weapons and integrate some hunters into the arms of the government.
“We have to love each other, and we all have to stand together,” said 86-year-old Chief Druse-religious leader of the city, Sheikh Abu Rabih Haj Ali, during the Friday meeting. “We don’t want to wear weapons. We don’t want to be against the state.”
It was what the government had been hoping for months now, after rebels from the Sunni Muslim majority of Syria had overthrown the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in December. But many Syrians from the many religious and ethnic minorities of the country stay on their care for their new leaders in the midst spasms of violence focused on minoritiesIncluding the Druse.
This week, a disadvantable Audioclip that claims from a druse -spiritual that the Prophet Mohammed insulted, stabbed Sunni extremists to attack Druse, also in Ashrafieh Sahnaya, south of Damascus, the capital. At least 101 people were killedIncluding government forces, Druse hunters and citizens, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor established in Great Britain.
In Ashrafieh Sahnaya, where different sects have long existed peacefully, mortars and grenades crashed in buildings. Drones crept from the sky and residents were criminating indoors, while local Druse Militi hunters fought against government forces and armed Sunni extremists.
The rebel coalition that Mr Al-Assad had overthrown included some Islamist extremist factions that remain outside the central control and that the Syrian authorities have shown little capacity to start.
Israel, whose government is close to the Israeli Druse -lesson, then intervened in the name of the protection of Syrian Druse, launch of air strikes on the objectives of the Syrian government.
There are more than a million Druse in the middle, usually in Syria and Lebanon, and some in Jordan and Israel. They practice a secret spur of Islam.
By Friday the bloodshed still seemed more raw wound than for many.
One man during the Friday meeting demanded the government of the government about safety and safety. Apart from the recontringing tone of the others present, he accused pro-government forces of the slaughter of citizens.
The officials of the meeting argue for patience.
“We promise you a better life,” said Mr. Mudawwar, the government official. “What happens to you will happen to us. It is the duty of the government to protect everyone.”
Some listeners bought it.
Saleh Makiki, the cousin of Mr. Haj Ali, said he had lost five family members this week, including his father, a son and an uncle. Yet he said he was willing to move forward.
“Errors have happened, but we now have guarantees,” he said. The government later released 32 local men who were held during the collisions and met an important grape demand.
However, opinions were divided outside the meeting room.
On the other side, Bahira Haj Ali, 42, leaned out of her window to see the sheik, a family member, departing.
“It’s good that we had the men to resist,” she said about the local Druse militia. “You can’t imagine the sounds we have heard – shells, drones.” It was Difficult to trust Government forces, she said,, however, she added that she might feel different when men from Ashrafieh Sahnaya join.
Regarding the weapons of Druse Militia’s, Mrs. Haj Ali said: “This is our safety. It should not be given up.”
In the city there was disagreement about how the violence had started.
Some Sunnis said that Druse militants had attacked the government’s control points after extremists had attacked a nearby city, while some Druse said that Sunni extremists had beaten first.
The ground was littered around the city square, broken glass and bullet coil shells. Dozens of young men marched into the square after prayers ended in a nearby mosque on Friday, waving with the flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Sunni Former rebel group That took power in December.
“One, one, one,” they sang. “The Syrian people are one.”
But more often it was their cult, not their country, that they emphasized.
“These are the Sunni,” they sang. “The Prophet Mohammed is our eternal leader.”
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