Syria: In recent days,Turkish backed Islamists have ruthlessly attacked communities belonging to “infidels.”
The truth about the genocide in Syria.
A civilian walking the streets of Damascus is attacked and killed because he is a Syrian Alawite.
Turkish backed al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria set about killing civilians indiscriminately.
Christians and other religious minorities are living through a nightmare.
Al-Jazeera aka al-Qaeda mouth piece says the women and children who are taking refuge in the Russian Hmemim base are "Assad regime remnants". Which means, Aljazeera is legitimizing the slaughter of Syrian civilians. This is how low this Qatari outlet has sunk.Al Jazeera is complicit in what is happening to Alawites and Christians in Syria.
🇬🇷🇸🇾 Greek MEP Nikolas Farantouris, who was in Damascus on the weekend, said "Christians and Alawites are being massacred" and that the Antiochian Greek Orthodox Church requests food and medicine.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1899150043095175282.html1/ In the small Alawite village of al-Mukhtariyah alone, 147 males were executed by armed men.
Ever since I saw the video of the men forced to crawl and bark by gunmen in Syria, I couldnt get it out of my mind. It was so disturbing. It haunted me. And that is why I was determined to know the story behind it. This is what I found out about the massacre in the village of Mukhtariyah, near Latakia.
Here the main takeaways:
- 147 males and one woman executed in this village in cold blood on Friday, buried yesterday (Sunday).
- Almost all bodies show a bullet to the head.
- Males as young as 16 were excecuted.
- Also, elderly males targeted. Eldest victim in his 80s.
- Some Alawite males survived because they managed to escape and are still hiding in nearby fields.
- According to locals, "around 70% of male population of village was killed."
- I can confirm that the shocking video which went viral last Friday showing males forced by armed men to crawl and bark, was filmed in al-Mukhtariyah. Below my detailed interview with a person from al-Mukhtariyah who wasn't in the village the day of the massacre. He now tries to collect the names of all the victims and figure out who was killed and who is still alive. Long story but with chilling and important details.
“When I knew that something bad happened, I tried to contact relatives and friends in my village Al Mukhtariyah. You have to know, Al Mukhtariyah and Al Khraybeh are officially two villages, but they are so near to each other, we consider it as one village. Although there are no official figures, in total around a 1000 people live there.
So I first contacted my cousin. He didn’t answer. I called other relatives, they did not answer. At one point, the son of the second relative that I called answered the phone. He told me: “My father and your cousin are dead. Armed men killed them.”
“The first people who died were in the house of my cousin because he is living at the house of his father-in-law. This is at the entrance of the village. In that house they killed my cousin, two brothers of his wife and the son of one of her brothers. They were killed in front of a little shop. The bodies were still laying there until Sunday morning. Based on what I was told by numerous survivors, let me tell you what happened: First, on Friday morning two cars with armed men arrived in the village. They drove through it. Villagers saw them. The armed men didn’t say or do anything and the villagers in the village didn’t communicate with them.
Later that day, again two cars with armed men drove into the village. This time, the armed men stopped. They got out and immediately started the killings.
They killed all the males that they saw in the village. Any man that they saw, they killed. They didn’t ask questions. They didn’t have lists, they didn’t ask for wanted people, they didn’t interrogate. They just killed all the males.
In one house, they killed a 16 year old boy. In another house, the father and his four sons were executed. The father is around 80 years old. It didn’t matter that he was old, he was a male.
They prevented the women from picking up the bodies. Women were crying for their sons and husbands. They weren’t allowed to take the bodies. Militants warned them: “If you touch the bodies or burry them, you will pay the price.” “You ask me about who the armed group who entered the village. Honestly, nobody knows who they were. Nobody in the village has mingled with these people before, nobody had ever seen them before. Obviously, they didn’t introduce themselves.”
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“After they killed who they killed in the homes and the shops, they gathered a group of men who were still alive. They forced this group of men to crawl. The armed men then started to film them, because we saw these videos later online. They ordered the group of men to bark like dogs. Then, off camera, they killed them. I can confirm to you that this video was filmed by the gunmen in our village. After they filmed the group of men, they killed all of them. Also, there is another horrible video showing the aftermath of the execution by gunmen. So many bodies, next to one another, and you can hear the voice of the women wailing. I am in touch now with my neighbours. They escaped to the fields. What happened is that some people who live further inside the village heard shooting. Some of them immediately escaped to the fields after they heard the shooting and the screaming. They are still hiding in the fields. Until Sunday they could not go back to the village.
The names that I was able to collect is based on my phone calls with various females and males who survived and are eyewitnesses. I am always updating the names based on the information I get.
I just received a phone call from people who are hiding in the fields. They ask me: Can we go back home or not? What is the situation?
Now more than three days have passed. There is no electricity there. Cell phones are out of battery, it is very difficult to get information.
Yesterday, I was collecting the names of the victims.
I spoke to the daughter of our neighbour. She was trying to talk for three times. But she could not, she is very traumatized, she was so much crying. I said to her: “Stop, you are too traumatized. You don’t need to talk now”. But she insisted. She said: “I need to talk, I need to tell you the names of the people they killed.” Eventually she managed to give me the names of people she knew that were killed. She told me that also her father-in-law was killed – he was seventy years old. They killed him inside the house and they told the wife: ‘Don’t you move and don’t move him, otherwise bad things will happen to you.’ So, she sat for hours next to her dead husband in the same room.
The armed group that came to our village, they did no searches, asked no questions. Immediately they began killing. No words, nothing. My cousin is the only male child. That automatically means that you are not even allowed to go into the army (of Assad). And he got recently married and his wife is pregnant. Nevertheless they killed him. They never asked any questions. They just killed him. Every male they saw, they killed.
Later on Friday, armed groups kept roaming around the village. If villagers would return from the fields to check if it was safe again, the armed men would pick them up and kill them if they saw them. The men who escaped the first round of death, they unfortunately were killed in the second round. Because the militants came back and caught many men who returned to their houses to check the initial carnage.
“There was a (HTS)general security checkpoint close to the village, on the bridge over the M4 highway, which passes near the village. We had no problems with the men at the checkpoint, there was no tension. On Thursday evening that checkpoint was attacked. Somebody fired at them. We have no clue of course who fired. But the armed men who attacked our village were not the same guys who were on the checkpoint. It seems that somebody fired at the checkpoint. But what do we have to do with it. There is so much traffic near the highway, what do we have to do with it.”
“My own estimation is that 70 percent of the male population are dead. Some families lost 100 percent of all the male members.” https://video-s.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1899152170206871552/pu/vid/avc1/720x1170/5rrLwO2hugSZ8F4b.mp4The dead bodies were eventually brought by gunmen to the village school and a warehouse. Villagers were worried that the militants would take the bodies, or maybe burn the bodies to get rid of the evidence.
On Sunday, the general security came to the village. They said: we have set up the checkpoint up again on the bridge. General security advised the people who are in the fields: “Don’t come back yet to your houses, we don’t have the situation under control.”
Sunday afternoon I received another message from him: “We are going to bury the people today. The families who were hiding, came out with the sheikh. HTS was again in the village. HTS said: “We are not going to hurt you.” But HTS advised the surviving males of the village to return to the fields because “not everything is yet under control” and “we don’t control yet the group that was here.”
HTS then said to the surviving villagers: ‘You can bury the dead but don’t film anything. If somebody films, more bad things will happen to you’. So, nobody is allowed to film the burial.”
“Eventually 148 bodies were buried in a mass grave in the graveyard of the village. They weren't given a proper Islamic burial as is customary. There was no time, no water to wash them and no shrouds to wrap them. They were just put in the ground wearing the same clothes they were killed in."
Genocide in Syria: Al-Qaeda government made up of many turks terrorizes Minorities, West Ignores Atrocities (US/UK Complicity)Thousands being killed, whole villages wiped out.
Alawites, Christians Shia & Sunni too
Al Jazerra terrorist media organisation wont report this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyU81GXUEughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD1GAJGJa0I#Summary_executions and other #atrocities have taken place in Syria’s coastal region following insurgent attacks on Syrian security forces, with the #Alawite_community bearing the brunt of the violence, HRW said today
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/10/syria-end-coastal-killing-spree-protect-civilians(New York) – Summary executions and other atrocities have taken place in Syria’s coastal region following insurgent attacks on Syrian security forces and during subsequent government security operations, with the Alawite community bearing the brunt of the violence, Human Rights Watch said today. While interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa acknowledged that “many parties entered the Syrian coast and many violations occurred,” he declined to comment on the involvement of foreign fighters, allied factions, or his own security forces. The full extent and perpetrators of these crimes have not yet been conclusively determined.
The recent wave of abuse began after coordinated attacks on March 6 by armed men apparently linked with the former government of Bashar al-Assad. These attacks resulted in the deaths of 231 members of the security forces as of March 9, according to the new government’s Military Operations Command via its official Telegram channel. In response, government security forces, including factions under the Ministry of Defense, conducted what the government called “combing operations” throughout the region. Unidentified armed groups and individuals—many entering Tartus and Latakia governorates from other parts of Syria following official calls for general mobilization—joined these operations.
Unverified videos posted to Telegram channels show perpetrators, many in military fatigues, committing extrajudicial executions, looting, and indiscriminately shooting into homes and villages, as well as widespread mistreatment and outrages on personal dignity, including sectarian rhetoric.
“Syria’s new leaders promised to break with the horrors of the past, but grave abuses on a staggering scale are being reported against predominantly Alawite Syrians in the coastal region and elsewhere in Syria,” said Adam Coogle, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Government action to protect civilians and prosecute perpetrators of indiscriminate shootings, summary executions, and other grave crimes must be swift and unequivocal.”
Human Rights Watch was not able to verify the number of civilians killed or displaced, but obituaries circulating on Facebook indicate hundreds were killed, including entire families. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported on March 9 that general security forces and affiliated armed factions and individuals were responsible for the deaths of at least 396 people, “both civilians and disarmed members of the remnants of the Assad regime.” Some estimates put the civilian death toll at over 700. The SNHR also reported civilian deaths at the hands of armed groups affiliated with the former government.
Initially, official Telegram channels urged people to head to the coast to “support our brothers.” However, this rhetoric quickly changed, with officials later emphasizing that volunteers were no longer needed. On March 6, Latakia’s public security director announced a full security mobilization, while the defense minister ordered military deployment to crush Assad loyalists. By March 7, President al-Sharaa declared that the time for forgiveness had passed, focusing on “liberation” and “purification” of the region while urging security forces to protect civilians. The Military Operations Command reported that about half a million fighters had mobilized to defeat the “Nusayri [a derogatory word for Alawites] rebellion.” It later claimed “individual violations” took place at the hands of “unorganized crowds.”
On March 9, President al-Sharaa announced the formation of an independent national committee to investigate the events of March 6 within 30 days and pledged to refer those responsible for crimes to the judiciary. Syrian authorities should ensure that the commission is able to carry out its work independently and impartially.
Many families in the coastal region have fled because of the security raids, taking shelter in remote mountain villages, the Russian Hmeimim airbase near Latakia city, and across the border in Lebanon.
Human Rights Watch spoke to a 22-year-old Alawite medical student who fled Baniyas city on foot with his family after learning that four of his relatives had been killed. They found shelter in a house on the edge of a village.
“We’re hungry and cold but there’s no way we’ll go back to the city,” he said. “We don’t feel safe there. Here too, there is no rest, every time we hear a sound we run into the wilderness and hide.”
He said he contacted the Syrian Red Crescent and the White Helmets for evacuation, but they told him they lacked the capacity. “They told us to call the authorities but there’s no way we can trust them. Our top priority right now is survival and if we survive this then we want to seek refuge outside this country.”
Human Rights Watch reviewed and geolocated videos and images of one incident of mass executions in the village of al-Mukhtariya in the Latakia countryside, counting at least 32 men’s bodies. Syrian activists in the coastal region told Human Rights Watch that Alawites and others in the region have lived in fear because of abuses during security combing operations since December, as well as widespread loss of livelihoods due to arbitrary dismissals from jobs and the dissolution of the former army and security forces.
https://x.com/jenanmoussa/status/1898133631388065943Since December, there have been numerous incidents of incitement against predominantly Alawite and Shia communities, including intentional vandalizing and destruction of Alawi religious shrines and mass distribution of anti-Alawite flyers. Violations in the context of combing operations, including summary killings, have been reported since at least early January, including in Alawite-majority villages in the western Homs countryside.
On January 23, security forces conducted a combing operation in Fahel village, during which they arrested at least 58 men, including former military personnel who had had formally resolved their legal status with the new authorities. After the operation concluded, residents say, they discovered bodies on the outskirts of town.
It was later confirmed that 13 former military personnel, some of whom were detained earlier during the operation, and two civilians were killed that day. The Homs media office said in a statement to The National that authorities tracked down and arrested attackers, but no further information has been made public about accountability efforts.
The Syrian government should immediately ensure that civilians who want to flee are able to do so through secure routes and that humanitarian organizations can provide assistance to those sheltering in remote villages, including food, medical aid, and secure relocation options, Human Rights Watch said.
The violence in Syria’s coastal region underscores the urgent need for justice and accountability. Accountability for atrocities must include all parties, including groups like Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham and the Türkiye-backed Syrian National Army, which now constitute Syria’s new security forces. These groups have a well-documented history of human rights abuses and violations of international law. Justice efforts need to address past and ongoing violations, ensuring accountability for abusers and providing reparations to victims.
Syria’s new leadership should also fully cooperate with and ensure unhindered access to independent monitors including the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria and the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
At the same time, comprehensive security sector reform of Syria’s new army and security forces is critical. This includes creating a security sector aligned with international human rights standards, ensuring civilian oversight, and implementing rigorous vetting to remove individuals involved in abuses. Other countries should provide technical and financial assistance to ensure that the new security forces protect civilians and observe the rule of law. This should also include supporting an independent judiciary that can ensure the legality of detention and lawful treatment of all detainees.
“Justice is not real justice if it only applies to some but not others,” Coogle said. “Accountability needs to extend to all human rights abusers, regardless of their past or current affiliations. Without this, lasting peace and stability in Syria will remain elusive.”
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