Syria Violence Marked by Sectarian and Revenge Killings, War Monitor Says
Posted on: Mar 12, 2025 22:07 IST | Posted by: Nytimes
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The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated into it were largely responsible for the sectarian violence.
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon
Armed groups and foreign fighters linked to the government but not yet integrated into it were primarily responsible for the sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal region over the past week, a war monitoring group said in a new report.
The U.S. Secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said on Wednesday that the United States would “watch the decisions made by the interim authorities” after hundreds of civilians were killed in just several days in Latakia and Tartus Provinces, areas dominated by the country’s Alawite religious minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. He added that Washington was concerned by “the recent deadly violence against minorities.”
The ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad was an Alawite, and some members of his minority community enjoyed a privileged status under his rule. The new government is led by Sunni Muslim former rebels who fought Mr. Al-Assad in a 13-year civil war.
The clashes erupted almost a week ago when Assad loyalists ambushed government security forces, prompting a harsh crackdown that devolved into sectarian attacks on civilians, according to the United Nations and groups that monitor Syria.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights, one of those groups, said in a report released late on Tuesday that the violence in recent days “included extrajudicial killings, field executions, and systematic mass killings motivated by revenge and sectarianism.”
The group said that armed groups and foreign Islamist fighters aligned with the government “but not organizationally integrated into it” were “primarily responsible” for the sectarian and revenge-driven mass killings.
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