Damascus, Syria — More than 1,400 people, most of them, were killed in communal violence for several days on the banks of Syria earlier this year, a government committee worked for investigation on Tuesday.
Violence was the first major incident after President Bashar Assad exited for a long time in December. It said that there was no evidence that the new military leaders of Syrian ordered attacks on the Alavit community there, which had Assad.
Officials told reporters that about 300 people were identified during murder, robbery, torture and robbery of houses and businesses and burning of houses and businesses were identified during four months of investigation and referred to prosecution, and 37 people were arrested. He did not say how many suspected security forces were members.
The committee’s report came as Syria reels from a new phase of communal violence in the south, which has again threatened to remove the country’s delicate recovery from the civil war of about 14 years.
The committee said the violence on the coast began on 6 March when loyal armed groups attacked the new government’s security forces towards Assad, of which 238 were killed. In response, the security forces landed on the coast from other areas of the country, joining by thousands of armed citizens. Overall, some 200,000 armed men gathered, the committee said.
Committee spokesperson Yasar al-Paran said they enter the neighborhood and villages, including members of some-monkey factions-“serious, serious violations against citizens,” said Yasar al-Paan, spokesperson of the committee. In some cases, armed men asked the citizens if they belonged to the Alvite sect and “violated on it,” he said.
However, the committee found that “communal objectives were mostly based on revenge, not ideology,” he said.
The chairman of the committee Judge Zuma al-Aniji said that “We have no evidence that (military) leaders ordered violations.”
He also said that investigators have not received reports of kidnapping girls or women. Some rights groups, including the United Nations Commission, have documented cases of kidnapping of alvite women in months since the violence.
Since then, reports of alvites being killed, robbed and exit have been scattered. Thousands of members of the minority sect have fled to neighboring Lebanon.
In the last two weeks, the echo of coastal violence echoed in the new clashes in the southern Sweda province.
The Sunni Muslim Badouin clans and the drew religious minority armed groups and government security forces took place, and government security forces intervened to restore the order, which ended the siding with Bedouin. Members of the security forces allegedly killed and looted homes. Drews armed groups launched revenge attacks on Bedouin communities.
Hundreds of people have been killed, and the United Nations says more than 128,500 people have been displaced. The violence has to be largely closed as a ceasefire.
The chairman of the committee said that the violence in Sweda is “painful for all Syrians”, but their committee is “beyond the jurisdiction”.
“Time will tell what happened and who is responsible for it,” he said.
Mohammad Hazam Bakleh, head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the situation in the city of Sweda was serious, especially in the main hospital, where some 300 bodies had piled up during clashes. The city was almost completely cut off from the supply during a two -week fight.
A Red Crescent team worked with the hospital forensic to document and prepare the dead to prepared to bury them.
Bakle said that during the fight with electricity and water, there was a large extent cut, “The hospital has a significant drawback of materials and lack of human resources”.
He said, “Markets, in general, were closed and services during the fight are almost completely closed”.
Bakle said the Red Crescent was brought into a assistance convoy on Sunday, which was the first to enter the city since the violence began, and on Wednesday prepares to send another 66 tonnes of flour, along with other foods, fuels and medical objects, Bakle said.
He said that the group was registering the names of the citizens who wanted to leave the city on Wednesday to give them a safe route.
During the fight, the Red Crescent teams were attacked. He said that one of his vehicles was shot, and a warehouse was burnt after shelling.
The evacuation of Bedouin families from the drama-magority areas has started. The Syrian state media said on Sunday that the government has coordinated with officials in Saweda to bring buses to evacuate some 1,500 Bedouin. Many of them are now living in crowded shelters in the neighboring Dara province.
Some people are worried that displacement will be permanent, a familiar landscape from the days of Syrian civil war.
Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Tuesday that “while officials said that transfer is temporary, there are concerns that these families may be unable to return safely without clear guarantee.”
The provincial governor of Sweda, Mustafa Al-Bachaur reiterated the promise that displacement would not be long term.
“There may be no permanent displacement in Syria,” he told AP. “Anyone will not accept the house to quit his life and in addition to a temporary solution, until things calm down.”
The report by Human Rights Watch states that all sides of the conflict allegedly “severe abuses” and violence “ignited the risk of infiltration and reprimand against the draped communities across the country. ,
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Sewell reported from Berut. Associated press writer Malak Harb contributed to this report in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
