On March 8, Ibrahim was kidnapped in front of Sabea and his wife by the fighters who stormed the coastal city of Gabies, Latakia.

The fighters, who are nomineive with the new government in Syria, had descended in the region and were searching for Alawites-a religious minority to which the former leader in Syria, Bashar al-Assad-Ibrahim Albut.

The authentication unit on the island, found Sanad, found and verified a video that determines the body of Ibrahim. Mazen*, the cousin of Ibrahim, who did not want to give his title, said that many other people he knew were also killed.

“the [fighters] My three -year -old friend and her three -year -old girl killed another friend who was a pharmacist and her husband, who was a doctor. They also killed my cousin and her father, who was 80 years old.

“Why didn’t anyone stop [the killing]? “He added.

Sectarian manufacturing

In 2011, the Assad regime crushed a popular uprising, prompting men all over the country to capture weapons, others to defend their families and others to try to overthrow the government.

Assad stained the “terrorist” opposition and claimed-for foreign and home masses-that his regime is the only one to protect religious minorities in Syria. The speech caused many of the ADs that if the Assad regime falls, they will be attacked by revenge because they are “linked” with it.

At the same time, most Alpowians did not want anything with a brutal suppression system of Syrians, and they target the Sunni Muslim majority in an impartial way.

During the rule of Assad, the barrel bombs and chemical weapons were used against civilians, playing hunger as a weapon of war, killing and hundreds of thousands of people disappeared in a maze of torture rooms and fortified towers.

Incues in system, manufactured rhetoric and sectarian violence. Many Alpine still remember one incident of revenge, when opposition fighters killed 190 people on the coast of Syria in 2013, according to HRW.

When opposition fighters recently overthrew the regime in December 2024, the President of Syria now promised Ahmed Al -Sharra to protect minorities.

The initial period of calmness after the lion’s fall led to many albums to believe that they will be safe.

But after the killings on the coast of Syria in early March, the confidence that the Shara can protect the Alawites now, unleashed, as many of the island told Al -Jazeera.

Violence on the coast

On March 6, armed loyalists launched a wave of attacks that killed hundreds of security forces and civilians, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).

During the next four days, violence erupted throughout the coastal region in Syria, prompting the new security forces in the country to deploy to repel support fighters.

An unknown number of armed men – who have expressed sectarian feelings on the video – also descended and believed that they carried out hundreds of killings for retaliation against the ALION, according to survivors, local screens and analysts.

SNHR said that the affiliation of all militants is still mysterious, which is clear that as of March 17. At least 639 people They were not judicially killed in the coast, which violates international law and could amount to war crimes.

“Many of [counter] The attacks were illegal that targeted the targeted civilians or fighters [disarmed]Fadil Abdel Ghani, the founding director of SNHR told Al Jazerera.

“The main perpetrators are [two nominally state aligned] Armed groups … who joined the security forces. The security forces also committed violations, but not as much. “

Abu Yasser Barra, a spokesman for the Syrian Ministry of Defense, told Al -Jazeera that the authorities are still investigating allegations.

“A committee has been formed to investigate these rumors, and its results will be publicly published,” he said to the Jewish channel.

The bloody events raises questions about whether the Shara can fill in the armed factions with a history of human rights violations, who were not completely unified in the Ministry of Defense after Assad was brought down.

In the turmoil that followed the overthrow of the gods in December, Syria remained fragmented and militarized.

It was not quite clear that the number of fighters across the country who joined the batch of Hayat Tahrir THAM (HTS) from Shara to take Damascus-opposition groups backed by Turkish, Lone Wolf Fighters and smaller units of foreign fighters all of them are across Syria.

Even if Sharra succeeds in putting all groups under central control, it may struggle to enhance Alawits’s confidence in Syria.

“We do not know who we are currently trusting,” said Maryam*, which is a stylist from Latakia. “We don’t know if this is intended [from the government] Or if they simply lose control [of] Some monsters in these factions. “

Maryam said that the fighters stormed the homes of many of her friends asking whether they were “Sunni or Uy.”

In one case, Maryam’s sister was about to kill with her family until one of the fighters realized that she was married to his childhood friend.

“Can you imagine their luck,” Mary told Al -Jazeera Island, in disbelief. “When the fighter realized who was her husband, they just left.”

Outside of control?

After the loyalists began their attack, a telegram channel coordinated between the Syrian opposition groups during the operation against Assad was an invitation to civilians and armed factions to mobilize and help the security forces crushing the loyal loyalists. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

HRW said that the invitation was quickly canceled, but many armed militants and factions have already arrived in the coast.

Abdel -Ghani from SNHR said that a small component of foreign fighters was involved in the killings for revenge, but he devoted the Brigade of Suleiman Shah (Amshat) and the brigade of the Hamza Division (Hamzat), as was particularly involved.

The factions-which were punished by the US State Department in August 2023 to commit atrocities in northwestern Syria-operated under the umbrella of the backed Syrian-Turkish National Army, which is an alliance of rebel groups who opposed the Assad regime.

SNA factions are named after the Transitional Ministry of Defense, but they maintain a series of actual separate leadership, according to Jerome Driffon, an expert in armed groups directed towards the Islamic with the International Crisis Group (ICG).

He added that the inner circle of the trusted factions in the Sharra-which fought under the umbrella of Haya Taher Al-Sham (HTS) to bring down Assad in December-is more disciplined fighters from SNA factions.

Drifon said that Syria will need to be injected by financing to be able to pay the wages that attract armed groups to join one series of leadership.

He said that the exhausted Western sanctions on Syria, which are originally imposed on weakening Assad, hurt the new government’s ability to do so, adding: “If the Syrian government cannot pay a salary, it will not be able to create an army and the situation [in Syria] It will decompose.

“We will finally finish the vision of armed groups controlling large parts of the country.”

Al -Jazeera, a spokeswoman for the Syrian Ministry of Defense Abu Yasser Barra, requested whether the government is struggling to unify the control of the armed factions, and if Western sanctions have thwarted their ability to do so.

Abu Yasser Barra did not respond to the time of publication.

Security and accountability

Joseph Dhahir, an expert in the Syrian economy, said that the new authorities Syria can blame future security incidents for “rogue elements” or “extremists” to attract Western financing “fighting terrorism”, but pouring money in the security sector in Syria will not settle the country.

“Nobody denies that Syria needs an international investment, but this investment must be directed to the productive sectors in the economy such as private manufacturing and agriculture,” he said to Al -Jazeera.

He added: “If more money goes to a future army, it will dominate the new Syria.”

Dahr said that more young people will be attracted to join – and perhaps balloon – security forces if there are no alternative lives.

What is more than that, rights groups, experts and victims confirmed that the new authorities in Syria must address previous violations of the civil war and mitigate them from the receptors, which began to punish those who committed the atrocities in the Syrian coastal region in March.

Al -Sharra has already announced the formation of two independent committees: the first will discuss the March 6 attacks and sectarian violence, and the second will aim to restore the confidence of the Alawite community.

Crisis Group agreed that Sharh needs to ensure accountability of the Human Rights accountable and that the ALION are given sufficient opportunities to completely integrate and help rebuild Syria.

“[Al-Sharaa] You may also need to communicate with Al -Alawites, who were excluded from security structures by the new government and this policy may have to change. “

What will the future attend

SNHR expressed its support for the decision of Al -Sharra to launch two investigative committees after the violence that was revealed in the coastal area.

However, it has confirmed that the committees must include independent human rights observers, as well as members of the Allawi community to enhance the public’s confidence in their work and their conclusions.

Al -Jazeera sent written questions to the Ministry of Information in Syria to ask whether the government was considering some SNHR suggestions, but no response was received at the time of publication.

Several albums from Syria Al -Jazeera told the confidence between the new authorities and their society to be widely.

Mazen insisted that he and his family were always against Assad, in which he blamed the poor paragraph and the engineering sectarian divisions in the country.

But now, he fears that they will suffer from a much worse fate if it allows what he describes as a “extremist” to attack the cucumber without punishment.

Since the reprisal killings in the coastal region, thousands of people, including many Albanians, have resorted to a nearby Russian base and fled over the border to the northern Akar region in Lebanon.

Many ILIs believe that the new authorities in Syria will not risk the civil conflict by taking strict measures against the factions that committed sectarian violence and other human rights violations.

“They do not trust anyone to protect him anymore,” Mazen told the island of the island, just days after bloodshed.

“They don’t think there is any future in Syria for them.”

* The names have been changed to protect the individual