Whole families died during recent violence in Syria, the UN says

Whole families, including women and children, were killed during the recent violence in the coastal region of Syria, the UN Human Rights said.

The press secretary told reporters that the UN had still checked the killing of 111 civilians from last Thursday, but the actual figure was believed to be much higher.

Many cases were consolidated shootings and seemed to be conducted on a sectarian basis, in particular, mostly the Alavichy districts.

The militants supporting the Islamist Sunni government are accused of murder of revenge after death on the security patrol president Bashar al -Assad, who is Alavit.

The monitoring group reported that more than 1,200 civilians, most of whom Alavites were killed in the provinces of Latakia, Tataus, Ham and Homs.

The UN welcomed the promise of Syrian Chargé President Ahmad Al-Sharaa to create an independent Investigative Committee and hold accounting.

Violence was the worst in Syria, as Sharaa headed the offensive of the rebels who overthrew Assad in December, ending the 13 -year civil war in which more than 600,000 people were killed.

The northwestern Mediterranean coast of Syria is the heart of the Alavita’s heart, the offshoot of Shiite Islam, to which many political and military elites of the Assad regime belonged.

Last week, security forces launched an operation in the region in response to a growing uprising by Assad Loyalists.

The violence grew on Thursday after 13 security officers were killed by militants in the coastal city of Jebl.

Security forces responded, sending reinforcements to the region, which was joined by armed groups and persons who supported the government.

They broke into numerous cities and villages of Alavita across the region, where residents said that they had murdered revenge and plundered houses and shops.

A spokeswoman for the UN Human Rights Office Taima Al-Hayton said that reports were continuing to emerge from a “problematic violence”.

He said the UN, using strict verification methods, still recorded the murder of 90 civilians, 18 women, two girls and one boy.

Initial messages show that the guilty were members of armed groups supporting security forces and elements related to Assad regime, he added.

“In a number of extremely disturbing cases, whole families – including women, children and persons who are in the fighting – were killed, in particular, mainly high -rise cities and villages aimed at in particular,” he said, citing the fighting that was captured, expressed his intention or not incapacitated.

“According to the many testimonies collected in our office, the criminals searched the homes, asking the residents whether they were Alavites or Sunni before the murder or deprive them accordingly. Some survivors told us that many men were shot before their families.”

According to D -Hetan, Assad’s loyalists also searched several Latakia, Tartus and Bania hospitals. They reportedly faced security forces, resulting in dozens of civilian victims, including patients and doctors, were good because the hospitals were harm.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the UK, said its civilian number of the dead had grown to 1225, after another 132 people were killed on Tuesday, including 62 in Bania. According to its network, about 230 security officers and 250 fighters about Assad were also killed.

Mr. Hitina said that the UN Chief of Human Rights urged Syrian authorities to conduct operational, careful, independent and impartial investigations.

“All those who have recognized responsible for violations must be taken into account, regardless of their affiliation, in accordance with the norms and standards of international law. Victims and their families have the right to truth, justice and reparation,” he emphasized.

The press secretary of the new Investigative Committee, created by the government, said he was already “collecting and considering evidence” and submit a report in 30 days.

“Nobody is higher than the law. The Committee will submit all the results for the organization that launched it, the presidency and the judiciary,” Yaser Farhan said at a press conference.

The Sana News Agency also reported that four people were arrested for “bloody violations against civilians” in the coastal village after they were identified in the video.

Meanwhile, the residents of the region said the situation was calm on Tuesday, and only the sporadic gun was heard over the night.

A man who escaped from Bania’s city three days ago, told the BBC that he had been able to return to his home to check it out because the security forces set the checkpoints in the neighborhood to prevent further murder and robbery.

The man who asked to remain unknown also said that the bodies lying on Bania’s streets last week were gone.

Syrian red crescent moon, with the help of security forces, is said to be restored by the body and buries them in mass graves in the city cemetery.

However, most families have not returned home because they were injured by what happened and is going through their safety, against the backdrop of reports of murder and robbery.

Many have turned to asylum in the Russian controlled HMEIMIM air base outside the city of Latakia, shelter in local schools or escaped to the countryside.

Others went to the neighboring Lebanon, where the woman reported to the BBC that two months ago, armed men attacked her home in a rural hama and killed men from her family.

“My nephews were 11 and 12 years old. They rounded them and lined up on all other young men,” Hinda said.

“One of them asked his friend about our religion. He said, ‘They are alvisted,’ and he pointed a gun and killed all people in front of him.”

“They see us guilty just because our president was Alavit.

A young man named Visa said he no longer trusted the government and security forces.

“They are all the same – armed and covered. They have privileges that no one else has. They do everything they want,” he said.