More than 600 Syrians died in bloody collisions After the violence broke out between supporters of the new rulers of the conflict by the nation and President Bashar al Assad-Loyalists driven out, while naked bodies were paraded on the street.
The violent collisions, which burst on Thursday, were some of the deadliest since the conflict of Syria began 14 years ago and marked a major escalation in the challenge for the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents had authority after removing Assad from the power.
The government has said that they responded to attacks of remains of Assad's forces and blaming 'individual actions' for unbridled violence.
The revenge murders that were started by Sunni Muslim shooters who are loyal to the government against members of Assad's Minority Alawite Sect are a big blow to Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, the faction that led to the overthrow of the former government.
Alawites made up a large part of Assad's support base for decades.
Inhabitants of Baniyas, one of the cities that are most struck by the violence, said that bodies had been littered on the street or had not stayed in houses and on the roofs of buildings, and nobody could collect them.
One witness said that the shooters prevented residents for hours from removing the bodies from five of their neighbors that were killed up close on Friday.
“They brought people violently on the streets, then they stood up and started shooting them,” a Baniyasin resident told Sky News.
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The collisions are some of the deadliest since the conflict of Syria began 14 years ago
Smoke increases as search and sweep operations are expanded to detect the remains of the deposited Bashar al-Assad regime after recent security voltages in the coastal region, where deposited regime elements attacked security patrols and checkpoints, resulting in victims
“They didn't leave anyone behind. They didn't leave anyone at all. The scene I saw was pure horror; It just can't be described, “he said.
The man Aslo described how women were forced to 'walk naked' before they were shot.
Ali Sheha, a 57-year-old resident of Baniyas who fled with his family and neighbors for hours after the violence broke out on Friday, said that at least 20 of his neighbors and colleagues in a neighborhood of Baniyas where Alawites lived were killed, some in their stores or in their homes.
Sheha mentioned the attacks 'revenge murders' of the Alawite -lessness for the crimes committed by the Government of Assad.
Other residents said that the shooters include foreign hunters and militants from neighboring villages and towns.
“It was very bad. Bodies were on the street, “while he fled, Sheha said, by telephone speaking from almost 20 kilometers (12 miles) distance from the city. He said that the shooters gathered at less than 100 meters from his apartment building, randomly shots on houses and residents and at least one incident he knows, residents asked for their IDs to check their religion and their cult before they killed them. He said that the shooters also burned a few houses and robbed cars and houses houses.
The leaders of the three most important Christian churches of Syria issued a joint statement on Saturday in which 'slaughterings are aimed at innocent citizens', after reports of massive murders of Alawite citizens by the security forces.
The War Monitor, which was established in Great Britain, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that '532 Alawite citizens were killed in the coastal areas of Syria and the Latakia Mountains by security forces and allied groups'.
“In recent days, Syria has witnessed a dangerous escalation of violence, cruelty and murders, resulting in attacks on innocent civilians, including women and children,” said the joint explanation.
It was signed by the patriarchs of the Greek -Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox and Milkiet Greek Catholic Churches.
The reported murders on the Mediterranean coast – the heart of the Alawite religious minority – were taken by fighting between the new security forces of the country and shooters who are loyal to President Bashar Al -Assad.
Although the majority of Christians of Syria fled during the Civil War that broke out in 2011, the city of Latakia, which was hit hard by the last violence, is the home of a small Christian community.
“Condemn the Christian churches, although it strongly condemns an act that threatens the bourgeois peace, denouncing the slaughteres and condemn them on innocent citizens, and ask for an immediate end to these horrific actions that are in grim opposition to all human and moral values,” said the statement.
“The churches also ask for the rapid creation of circumstances that are conducive to achieving national reconciliation among the Syrian people.”
More than 600 Syrians died in the bloody collisions that broke out on Thursday
The newest series of violence in Syria also marks a major escalation in the challenge for the new government in Damascus
It comes three months after insurgents have taken the authority after removing Assad of the power
The War Monitor, based in Great Britain, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that '532 Alawite citizens were killed in the coastal areas of Syria and the Latakia Mountains
The new authorities have repeatedly promised an inclusive transition that protects the rights of religious minorities
Family members and neighbors attend the funeral procession for four Syrian security forces killed in collisions with loyalists of deposited President Bashar Assad in Coastal Syria
They insisted on a 'transition to a state that … lays the foundation for a society based on equal citizenship and real partnership, free from the logic of revenge and exclusion'.
The spiritual leader of the Druze minority of Syria, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hajri, also called to an end to the violence.
“The flames that burn under sectarian slogans will burn the whole of Syria and his people,” he said in a statement.
Assad, himself an Alawiet who wanted to present himself as a protector of the minorities of Syria, was deposited on December 8 in a lightning offering led by the Islamic group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham.
The leader of the Ahmed Al-Sharaa group has since been appointed interim president of Syria.
The new authorities have repeatedly promised an inclusive transition that protects the rights of religious minorities.
The Alawite Heartland is nevertheless taken by fear of reprisals for the brutal rule of the Assad family.
