Security forces accused of executing dozens of Alauitas

It is alleged that the Syrian security forces have executed 52 people belonging to the Alauita minority in the coastal province of Latakia, according to a war monitoring group.

The images seen by the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights based in British show dozens of bodies in accumulated civil clothing in the garden of a house in cankia.

A source from the Ministry of Interior told the official news agency of the country, healthy, said that “individual violations” had occurred on the coast and promised to stop them.

BBC News has not been able to verify the claims that the murders were committed by the forces of the new rulers of Syria.

This followed the clashes Among government forces and loyal combatants to the deposed president Bashar al-Assadthat left more than 70 dead.

A curfel has been imposed in the cities of Homs, Latakia and Tartous, where the fight has been broken.

Previously, BBC Verify confirmed two videos that showed a dragged body behind a car in cankia.

The special envoy of the united nation for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said in a statement that he was “deeply concerned” about the reports of clashes and murders.

He asked all parties to refrain from actions that could further inflame tensions, increase conflict, exacerbate the suffering of affected communities, destabilize Syria and endanger a credible and inclusive political transition. “

The region is the heart of the Alauita minority, and a strength of the Assad family, which belongs to the sect.

Estimates of the number of people dead in violence vary, and the BBC has not been able to verify them independently.

Residents say they have been subject to sectarian violence, with an alauita woman who tells the Arabic of the BBC that many Syrians are “scared”, regardless of whether they were on the coast or in the capital.

He added that “everyone is terrified of the current incitement,” and fears that they become “scapegoats.”

Türkiye and Russia have warned that bloodshed, worse from Assad’s demolition in December, threatens the stability of the entire region.

The alauitas, whose sect is a branch of Shiite Islam, constitute about 10% of the population of Syria, which is mostly Sunita.