Security forces accused of performing dozens of Alavites

Syrian security forces were supposed to be performed by dozens of people belonging to the minority in Latakia’s coastal province, the war monitoring group reports.

The British Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 162 civilians were killed in the “field shootings” in the region of the dismissed President Bashir Assad, which also belongs to the Alavita sect.

The source of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the official news agency Sana that “individual violations” had occurred on the coast and pledged to stop them.

The BBC News failed to check the claims that the killings were committed by the new Syrian leaders.

A total of 13 women and five children were killed, the AFP -Agency said.

Syria’s new rulers, who overthrew Assad in December, said a military operation is now being launched in Kardakh’s hometown.

In his first statement after the start of the violence, the temporary president of the country Ahmed al-Sharao said that Syria would chase the “remains” of the overthrown regime of Assad and would bring them to court, Reuters reports.

It follows from the contractions Between government forces and militants loyal siegewho left more than 70 dead.

In the cities of Hams, Latakia and Tartu, a curfew was imposed where the fighting crashed, and the Latakia governor said that the whole power of the province had been abbreviated.

Previously, the BBC Verify confirmed two videos that showed the body stretched by the car in Latakia.

Violence left the community of Alavita in the “horror state”, said a Syrian activist in the city of BBC Newshour.

“They feel so terrible. They are shocked,” said the activist who did not want to use his name to fear the repression.

“They don’t know what to do. There are no governments, no states that are ready to help them protect them,” he added.

A special messenger of the united nation in Syria Gire Pedersen said in a statement that his “deeply concerned” reports about contractions and murder.

He called on all parties “to refrain from actions that could further ignite tensions, escalate the conflict, strengthen the suffering of the affected communities, destabilize Syria, and threaten a reliable and inclusive political transition.”

The region is the heart of the Alawich minority and support of the Assad family belonging to the sect.

The estimates of the number of people who died in violence are different and the BBC could not check them independently.

Residents say they were the goals of sectarian violence, and one woman with Alavitz told the Arabic BBC that many Syrians were “afraid”, regardless of when they were on the coast or in the capital.

She added that “everyone is horrified by the current incitement” and afraid that they would become “goats”.

Turkey and Russia have warned that the bloodshed, the worst after Assad’s failure in December, threatens the stability of the whole region. Germany urged Syria to avoid “spiral violence” after contractions.

Alawites, whose sect is a branch of Shiite Islam, account for about 10% of the Syria population, which is most of the Sunnis.

An additional report by Ian Eikman