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BBC News Arabic, Western Syria
“My only son, only 25 years old,” Dalaal Makhna says, filling his eyes with tears. “They took it right on my part and told me, ‘We are going to kill him and break his heart.” “
It was the last dollar saw her son. He says he was shot dead by the militants who abducted him.
Dalaal comes from the minority sect in Alavit in Syria, which was aimed at the surge of sectaries of last week.
“Everyone knew that he had a violation of diabetes and anemia, and he just did his best to go.”
The BBC team found that she was seeking asylum along with thousands of other people in a distant Russian air base in the Western coastal region.
A group of war monitoring He says that from March 6 more than 1400 civilians have been killed – most of them – in Latakia and neighboring provinces, Tartus, Ham and Homs.
Dalaal is one of the few people who want to talk to us about what happened.
Last week, security forces launched surgery in the region, in response to the strengthening of the rebels by the fighters loyal to President Bashar al -Assad – Alavit, which was dominated by the sect members.
The violence grew after 13 security officers were killed by militants in the coastal city of Jebl.
Resurrents, loyal to the Government under the leadership of Sunnit, who replaced Assad, were charged with murder of revenge in mostly Alavichi communities after the attack.
Whole families, including women and children, have been killed over the next four days, the UN Human Rights reports.
On Wednesday, the press secretary told reporters that the UN still confirmed the killing of 111 civilians, but it is believed that the actual figure was much higher.
Many cases were the consolidated shootings, he added.
On the highway, our team found a car soaked in bullets.
It is unknown how many people died in it or their origin.
But it is difficult to imagine that anyone is survivor.
The coastal highway was secured and cleared after the attack by officials as the remains of the former regime. As a result of the attack, they followed the acts of revenge by the members of the sect of Alavita.
But our team saw dozens of bodies, which are still scattered among the bushes and mass graves, during a trip accompanied by fighters related to the Syrian Ministry.
Security sources reported the BBC that Assad’s loyalists who were behind the Jebl were not killed.
Instead, they managed to retreat to the nearby mountains when the power structures opened a large number of reinforcements from all over the country.
“All of them from these villages,” said Mahmoud al-hoi, a soldier at the new government’s defense ministry, which was located in a bars in the Latakia rural area.
“Everyone participated in what happened – they belonged to these communities. But now they all left the territory.
“The area was in full chaos. But, thank God, we managed to return control.
Most of the villages in the area are still abandoned.
Fearing sectarian murders, residents fled to the mountains where they slept in open places during the week.
In the village on the outskirts of the bars, our team came across a small group of men who were carefully returned to check their homes and shops.
Alavit Vafik Ismail said he was there when he was attacked, but he would not be in detail.
“Brother, I really can’t say anything about it. I don’t know. That’s all … May God keep us safe from harm.”
In the countryside, Latakia begins the Syrians’ control forces, and the borders of the Russian military air base begin.
Thousands of Alavita’s families have found refuge in this database to avoid attacks by various Syrian groups. They live in very tough conditions.
It was there that Dalaal says her son was killed. Others there told us similar stories.
Most families lost someone: a son, a relative or a neighbor.
Another woman with Alavitz told us: “We need an international protection against what we are experiencing. We left our homes, we left everything, and we came here.”
There were very few details regarding the attack last Thursday and its significant sectarian consequences. They were recognized by Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, who led the uprising that overthrew Assad in December.
Sharaa promised to bring the guilty responsibility, even if they enter his allies, saying that “we will not accept that the blood would be unfair.”
However, few believe that the early, caused by these events in the already heavily scarred Syrian body, will easily heal.