About 1,000 civilians were killed .. What is going on in the Syrian coast?

The Syrian security forces announced that they were fighting clashes in the west of the country with armed groups belonging to the former officer Suhail Al -Hassan, who was one of the most prominent leaders of the army in the Bashar al -Assad regime.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the security forces were killed in attacks by gunmen loyal to Bashar al -Assad in western Syria, against the background of tension witnessed by the area with the most Alawite.

The Observatory pointed out that the confrontations included a bombing by the Syrian authorities using helicopters.

The confrontations prompted the Syrian authorities to impose a ban on roaming in the governorates of Tartous and Lattakia, and then in Homs Governorate.

Individual violations

On Friday, the Syrian Ministry of Interior revealed that the Sahel region had violations described it as individual due to the trend of popular crowds unorganized it.

“After the remnants of the former regime assassinated many police and security personnel, large, non -organized popular crowds of the coast, led to some individual violations,” SANA reported a security source in the Ministry of Interior as saying.

The source added: “We are working to stop these abuses that do not represent the general Syrian people.”

“Painful” events

On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed that “the regions of the Syrian coast and the mountains of Lattakia witnessed painful events … hundreds of citizens, including women and children, were killed.”

The largest death toll occurred on the first day, in the city of Banias in the countryside of Tartous, where more than 60 civilians were killed in an intense attack, according to the observatory.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called on the international community to move urgent and send international investigation teams to document the grave violations that affected civilians.

“Conditions under full control”

On Saturday evening, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said that the forces continue to pursue the “lion’s remnants”, according to the approved operational plans.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense spokesman, Colonel Hassan Abdel -Ghani, said: “Our forces continue to pursue the remnants according to the approved operational plans.”

He added: “We call on those who came to the coast to return to their areas and conditions under full control.”

He continued: “Our forces are achieving rapid field progress, in the pursuit of the remnants of the defunct regime that attacked the public security forces and the implementation of treacherous ambushes for them.”

A supreme committee to preserve peace

On Sunday evening, the Syrian presidency announced the formation of a supreme committee to preserve the civil peace. A statement issued by the Syrian presidency said that “according to the supreme national interest, and a commitment to achieve civil peace among the components of the Syrian people, we are in the presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic we decide to form a supreme committee to preserve the civil peace.”

According to the Syrian presidency, “the committee is entrusted with the task of direct communication with the people of the Syrian coast to listen to them, and provide the necessary support to them in a manner that guarantees the protection of their security and stability.”

She added that the committee will also work to “work to enhance national unity at this sensitive stage.”

The word Sharia

For his part, the Syrian president, in the transitional phase Ahmed Al -Shara, said that his country “faces attempts to drag it into a civil war.”

Al -Shara said, in a registered speech on the recent events: “Syria is facing attempts to drag it into a civil war,” adding that “Syria will remain united and we will not allow tampering with national unity or civil peace.”

He added: “The defunct regime left a deep wounds … and we must be strong in the face of those who are trying to drag the country into a civil war.”

He continued: “We will not tolerate the remnants of the regime and have no choice but to surrender themselves.” (Sky News)