Syrians have described terror as Alvite families killed in their homes

The interim leader of the Syrian has appealed for unity, as violence and revenge murders continued in areas excluded to former leader Bashar al-Assad on Sunday.

Hundreds of people have allegedly fled from their homes in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus – the stronghold of Assad support.

Local residents have described scenes of robbery and mass murders including children.

In Hai Al Kusaur, an alvite neighborhood mainly in the coastal city of Baniyas, the inhabitants say that the roads are filled with scattered body, stack and covered in blood. The witnesses said that men of different ages were shot and killed.

People were also afraid of looking out of their windows on Friday. Internet connection is unstable, but when connected, he learned about the deaths of his neighbors from Facebook posts.

A man, Ayman Ferrus, told the BBC that he had survived his recent imprisonment. He posted a video on his Facebook account in August 2023, in which Bashar al-Assad was criticized for his corrupt rule. He was soon arrested, and was released only when the Islamist -led forces freed the prisoners after the fall of Assad last December.

The fighters who raided the streets of High al -al -Kusaur recognized him, so he was made of death, but not looting. They took her cars and raided other houses.

“They were strangers, I could not identify their identity or language, but they seemed to be Uzbek or Chechen,” Mr. Fares told me on the phone.

He said, “He was accompanied by some Syrians, but not official security. Some citizens were also among those who carried out the murder,” he said.

Mr. Fares said that he saw the families killed in his homes, and covered women and children in blood. Some families ran away on their roofs to hide but the bloodshed was not spared. “It’s frightening,” he said.

The UK -based Syrian Observatory for human rights documented more than 740 civilians killed in coastal cities of Latakia, Jables and Baniyas. Another 300 members of security forces and the remains of Assad regime are reported to be killed in clashes.

The BBC is not able to verify the toll of death independently.

Mr. Phares said that things became stable when the Syrian Army and security forces reached the city of Baniyas. He said that he pushed other groups out of the city and provided corridors to the families to reach safe areas.

Ali, another resident of Bania, who asked us not to use his entire name, confirmed the account of Mr. Farace. Ali, who lived in Kusour with his wife and 14 -year -old daughter, ran away from his home with the help of security forces.

“They came to our building. We were very scared to hear the fire and screams in the neighborhood. We learned about the deaths from Sporadic Facebook post when we managed to join. But when they came to our building, we thought we were doing,” he said.

“They were after money. They knocked on our neighbor’s door, his car, his money and all the gold or valuables made by him in his house. But he was not killed.”

Ali and his family were raised by his Sunni neighbors, who follow a separate branch of Islam, and are now living with them. “We lived together for years, Alvites, Sunnis and Christian. We never experienced it,” he told me.

“Sunnis ran to protect Alvites from the murder and are now in the city to restore the official force order.”

Ali said that families were taken to a school in a neighborhood, which is primarily Sunni, where they would be preserved until the murders of the murders excluded the murders from Bania.

Violence began on Thursday after Asad’s loyalists – who refused to leave weapons around Latakia and Jable’s coastal cities, out of which dozens died.

An former-Bridor General Ghiath Dalla in Assad’s army announced a new rebellion against the current government, stating that he was establishing “Military Council for Syrian’s liberation”.

Some reports suggest that the former security officer of the Assad regime who refused to leave the weapon, forming a resistance group in the mountains.

Mr. Phares said that most Alvite communities reject them and blame Dalla and other radical Asad loyalists for violence.

He said, “They benefit from the bloodshed that is happening now. Now what we need is official security and to prosecute the killers with groups who committed mass murder, so the country restores security, so he said.

But others also convicted the interim President Ahmed al-Shra, saying that they destroyed Syria’s security, army and police establishments, with no clear strategy to deal with thousands of officers and personnel.

Some of these persons, especially among the police, had nothing to do with the murder during the rule of Assad. The new officials also rejected thousands of public employees from their work.

90% of Syria’s population lives below the poverty line and left without thousands of income, it is fertile ground for a rebellion.

There is a division in scenes in Syria what is happening. The broad community condemns the murder of any citizen and demonstrations have been organized in Damascus to mourn deaths and condemn the violence.

But in the last two days, different parts of Syria also had calls for “jihad”. Residents in Baniyas said that with groups, there were some citizens who were armed and joined the army in the murder.

Syrian majority Sunnis have faced atrocities at the hands of the army of Assad rule in the last 13 years. It mainly raised communal hatred towards alvite minority, where members of the community are associated with war crimes.

According to human rights groups, there is evidence that Alvite security officials were involved in the murder and torture of thousands of Syrians, most of which Sunni Muslims are during the Assad rule.

The members of the army and security forces who were killed are mostly from the Sunni community and are now calling for some vengeance in the Sunni community, but the President has called for calm down.

Shara, whose Islamist forces topped Assad three months ago, will now have to provide protection to all along with justice to the Assad rule and his henchmen.

While he has authority over some soldiers who helped him help in power, some groups are clearly out of his control. Those groups also include a foreign fighter along with a radical Islamist agenda.

To carry Syria to a safe and democratic future, many people argue that Shara needs to end the presence of any foreign fighters and give a constitution that protects the rights of all Syrians, whether their background or religion, regardless of their background or religion.

While they are seen working towards the legal framework for such a constitution, controlling violent groups and expelting foreign fighters will prove to be a major challenge.