The death of this week’s outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria has surpassed 100, a war monitoring group said Thursday, after collisions between pro-government troops and militants from the Drus-linessness of Syria spread to new areas.
But by Thursday evening the representatives of the government had concluded similarities with Druse leaders in an attempt to calm the violence. The move also seemed to be a step to achieve the goal of the new government to integrate the Complex web of armed groups Active throughout the country to a national army. Leaders in the Druse-controlled Sweida region, previously reluctant to unite with government forces, expressed openness to do this.
The unrest began on Tuesday after an Audioclip circulated on social media that claimed to be a druse -spiritual that the Prophet Mohammed insults. The spiritual denied the accusation and the Ministry of the Interior of Syria said he was not involved.
Nevertheless, armed Sunni Muslime began to attack extremist groups of areas with large Druse populations, including the city of Jaramana near the capital, Damascus. Druse -Milities reacted in force and the government sent troops to suppress the unrest.
On Wednesday the collisions spread to another city on the southern edge of Damascus, Ashrafieh Sahnaya, and to Sweida, where they continued until Thursday morning.
Five prominent Druse leaders published a statement on Thursday evening that said staff from the Ministry of the Interior and the judicial police “from the people” of Sweida “must be activated, which points to an willingness to join forces with the government.
They also said that the government forces were used to secure the road from Sweida to the capital, where there were collisions on Wednesday. The government also agreed to send reinforcements to protect Jaramana, Druese leaders said there.
Jibran, a doctor who treated part of the wounded in Sweida, said that a delegation of Druse leaders from Sweida on their way to Ashrafieh Sahnaya on Wednesday morning was ambushed by Bedouin Tribal Fighters with mortars and machine horses.
Although the government’s security forces later came to restore order, Bedouin stretches started a Druse -Militie Checkpoint that night in the city of Kanaker, to the southwest of Sweida, who started a different battle at night, said Jibran, who asked for his first name only because of the transfer of violence. He said about 70 people were missing or killed.
In a country where minorities already felt deeply vulnerable, the most important outbreak of this week of sectarian violence-De Second since a rebel coalition President Bashar al-Assad, stood over and the power of the fractions of Syria even further exposed.
That coalition was led by the Islamic group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, who was once linked to Al Qaida, and included other Islamist armed groups with more extreme ideologies. Many of those groups have not been resolved in the new national army and the new authorities of Syria have shown little capacity to insert them.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor based in Great Britain, said that the death of three days of collisions rose to 101 on Thursday.
The observatory reported for the first time on Thursday that 35 Druse was killed on the road that Sweida connected with Damascus, and five Druse hunters in a village in Sweida.
Those killed in Ashrafieh Sahnaya on Wednesday were a former mayor from the area, Hassan Warwar, and his son, the Observatory said.
The observatory said that 20 from the government’s security forces were also killed in this week’s unrest and 10 of allied groups.
De Druse practices a religion that is a spur of Islam. Israel, which also has a close relationship with the Israeli Druse went into the fight On Wednesday, launching air strikes against what characterized it as ‘agents’ who had attacked the Syrian Druse citizens.
Abu Hassan, a Druse Militia commander in Sweida who goes through a Nom de Guerre, said that thousands of hunters had fought another southwestern city in different places on Wednesday between Sweida and Daraa. He said that Druse -militants fought against Bedouin militants, among other things connected to the government.
The governor of the area that includes Jaramana and Ashrafieh Sahnaya, AMR al-Sheikh, blamed ‘forbidden groups’ for starting the first violence in a press conference on Wednesday, but did not identify the groups. Mr. Al-Sheikh did not recognize the presence of armed actactions of pro-government and only said that official government forces had used to protect the two cities.
However, other security officials have privately acknowledged that the government is unable to control all armed groups that support them.
“We have the right to keep our weapons to protect ourselves against these random factions,” said Loubna Baseet, a Druse activist in Sweida.
The government “claims that they send all these military reinforcements to protect ourselves, but we don’t trust them,” she added.
Despite the sectarian combat lines, the general security forces of the Druse government and other minorities and fighters from the Sunni Muslim -majority of the country. Druse was one of the general safety forces killed this week.
But despite the promises of the government’s inclusiveness, Syrian minorities remain sharp, a fear that deepened after a march wave of sectarian murders Hit Syria’s coastal area, the home of the Alawwites of the country, the minority group to which the Assad family belongs.
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