BBC finds families sheltering at Russian airbase from sectarian attacks

BBC News Arab, western Syria

“My only son is only 25 years old,” says Dal Mahna, with tears that fill her eyes. They took him directly from my side and told me: “We will kill him and break your heart.” “
This was the last scenes of Dalla for her son. She says he was shot dead by the militants who kidnapped him.
Dal is from the Syrian sect, which has been targeted in an increase in sectarian violence since last week.
“Everyone knew that he had diabetes and bloodshed, and he was doing his best to reach him.”
The BBC Dal team found that thousands of other people at a remote Russian air base in the western coastal area of the country.
War monitoring group He says that more than 1,400 civilians have been killed since March 6 – most of them Alpine – in Latakia, the provinces adjacent to the themselves.
Dal is one of the few people who want to talk to us about what happened.

“Summary executions”
Last week, the security forces launched an operation in the area, in response to a growing rebellion by the fighters loyal to ousted President Bashar al -Assad – a Acket dominated by the sect regime.
Violence escalated after 13 security personnel were killed in an ambush by the militants in the coastal town of Gabies.
The armed forces loyal to the Sunni -led Sunni government, which replaced Assad, was accused of carrying out the killings of revenge in the mostly after the attack.
The entire families, including women and children, have been killed over the next four days, according to the United Nations Human Rights Office.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the correspondents told the United Nations that has so far been fulfilled by the killing of 111 civilians, but the actual number is believed to be much higher.
He added that many cases were brief executions.

On the highway, our team found a shot car.
The number of people who died in it, nor their backgrounds, is not known.
But it is difficult to imagine that anyone inside has survived.

The coastal highway was secured and cleared after an attack by officials that they were the remains of the former regime. The attack was followed by revenge against members of the Alawite sect.
But our team saw dozens of bodies still spread between the bushes and in the mass graves, during a tour accompanied by the fighters belonging to the Syrian Ministry of Defense.
The BBC security sources told the loyal lion behind the attack in Jabla, not all of them.
Instead, they managed to retreat to the nearby mountains when the security forces deployed large numbers of reinforcements from all over the country.
“They are all of these villages,” said Mahmoud Al -Hayek, a soldier in the new government Ministry of Defense, who was stationed in Banias in Latakia countryside.

“All the participants in what happened – they belonged to these societies. But now, they all left.
“The area was in a state of complete chaos. But, thank God, we were able to regain control. People began to return to their homes, and now, many people call to allow the rest to return.”
Most of the villages in the area are still deserted.
For fear of sectarian killings, the residents fled to the mountains, where they slept in open areas for a week.
In a village on the outskirts of Banias, our team encountered a small group of men who were cautious to check their homes and stores.
Alawite Wafiq Ismail said that there was when the attack occurred, but he wouldn’t take the details.
“My brother, I can not really say anything about it. I don’t know. That’s everything … God may keep us safe.”
“We need protection.”
In Latakia countryside, the Syrian security forces are over, and the borders of the Hmeimim Airbase base begin in the Russian army.
Thousands of Alawite families resorted to this base to escape the attacks by the various Syrian factions. They live in very harsh conditions.
This is the place where Dal said that her son was killed. Others told us similar stories.

Most families have lost someone: son, relative or neighbor.
Another woman from Alawite told us: “We need international protection from what we are going through. We have left our homes, left everything, ways to live, and we came here.”
Very few details were revealed regarding the attack last Thursday and its great sectarian repercussions. It was recognized by Syrian President Ahmed Al -Sharra, who led the rebel attack that toppled a lion in December.
Shara promised to hold the perpetrators accountable, even if they were among his allies, saying, “We will not accept that any fair blood will be thrown.”
However, few believe that the wound caused by these events in the Syrian, severely beating Syrian body will easily heal.
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2025-03-14 11:51:00