Syria rebels executed 67 Alawite villagers: HRW

[HAIDER]

The image shows a Free Syrian Army fighter in the al-Mashhad district of Aleppo, Oct 10, 2013. — Photo by Reuters

BEIRUT: Rebel groups executed at least 67 civilians and took hostage 200 others from Alawite villages in Syria in August, Human Rights Watch reported Friday, saying this constituted war crimes.

The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs.

HRW based its 105-page report on an on-site investigation and 35 interviews, including with survivors of an Aug 4 attack on 10 pro-government Alawite villages in the coastal province of Latakia.

Out of 190 civilians killed, the New York-based group said at least 67 were executed.

Some 20 groups took part in the attack before government troops expelled the rebels from the villages on Aug 18.

“Two opposition groups that took part in the offensive, the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (the Levant) and Jaish al-Muhajireen Wal-Ansar, are still holding the hostages, the vast majority women and children,” it said.

“The findings strongly suggest that the killings, hostage taking, and other abuses rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity,” the rights group said.

“The scale and pattern of the serious abuses carried out by opposition groups during the operation indicate that they were systematic and planned as part of an attack on a civilian population,” it said.

“In some cases, opposition fighters executed or gunned down entire families.”

HRW, noting that it had previously documented war crimes by government forces, urged the UN Security Council to “impose an arms embargo on groups on all sides against whom there is credible evidence of widespread or systematic abuses or crimes against humanity”.

It also urged countries with influence over the rebel groups, mostly made up of Sunni Muslims, to work for the release of the hostages.
Syria rebels executed 67 Alawite villagers: HRW - DAWN.COM

 

[Pakistanisage]

A lot of that is going on both sides of the divide. Assad gases whole neighborhoods and Hizbullah massacres Civilians and fighters alike and the FSA returns in kind. This is the kind of madness that occurs when things are not resolved through Democracy.

 

[HAIDER]

This shouldn't be started first place. Weapons and armed groups never bring democracy . Libya is living example where armed group easily kidnap PM. Well, FSA went Syria with flowers and candies and Alkaida stole those flower and candies now.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

A lot of that is going on both sides of the divide. Assad gases whole neighborhoods and Hizbullah massacres Civilians and fighters alike and the FSA returns in kind. This is the kind of madness when things are not resolved through Democracy.

I guess there is nothing left that I could say after reading this ^

 

[hussain0216]

So what the alewites have oppressed the majority Sunni Muslim population for decades

The people are fighting back

There is no place left in Syria for alewites

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

So what the alewites have oppressed the majority Sunni Muslim population for decades

The people are fighting back

There is no place left in Syria for alewites

How did you come up with the conclusion that " No place left in Syria for Shia Alawite " ?

 

[hussain0216]

How did you come up with the conclusion that " No place left in Syria for Shia Alawite " ?

Yes, that's right

The alewites are roughly above 15 percent of the syrian population this clan hss ruled abused and oppressed the 80 percent syrian Muslim population for decades

Their alewite dictator has killed millions over the decades one way or the other

These actions have consequences

Same goes for the christians

 

[HAIDER]

Yes, that's right

The alewites are roughly above 15 percent of the syrian population this clan hss ruled abused and oppressed the 80 percent syrian Muslim population for decades

Their alewite dictator has killed millions over the decades one way or the other

These actions have consequences

Same goes for the christians

Good , justice need to be done where there is majority and minority issue .

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Yes, that's right

The alewites are roughly above 15 percent of the syrian population this clan hss ruled abused and oppressed the 80 percent syrian Muslim population for decades

Their alewite dictator has killed millions over the decades one way or the other

These actions have consequences

Same goes for the christians

There 12ers, Druzes, and Christians as well. Do you want to kick them out of the country too?

 

[hussain0216]

No not really

But the reality is most will leave Syria or be forced outeeither way

 

[Doritos11]

No not really

But the reality is most will leave Syria or be forced outeeither way

Reality is that you are not helping your brothers who are being killed left and right, instead you live in the land of kuffar playing forum mujahid, shame. They will stay.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

No not really

But the reality is most will leave Syria or be forced outeeither way

Interesting. So, only Sunnis will stay?

Reality is that you are not helping your brothers who are being killed left and right, instead you live in the land of kuffar playing forum mujahid, shame. They will stay.

Don't you think so?

 

[hussain0216]

Interesting. So, only Sunnis will stay?



Don't you think so?

It's a civil war whatever the costs the majority population will win one way or the other

Assad can't go on if he dies tomorrow which alewite will become the next dictator

Would the Syrian Muslims accept another alewite dictator or alewite army who has abused them for so long, the answer is NO


This civil war has become personal and the reality is that the murder of Sunni Muslims has guaranteed that their will be a lot of blood letting of all the minority communities

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

This civil war has become personal

I guess this sums up the current situation.

 

[hussain0216]

Revenge is a powerful force

All the communities have revenge on their minds for the people killed but only the majority sunni community can win

All the other communities will suffer for this war