Security guards from the Syrian president’s Baath party have fired shots at protesters trying to raid its local headquarters in southern Syria, wounding at least three people, activists said.
, as they they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader. Some of the offices have since reopened.
In video shared by media collective Suwayda 24, dozens of protesters could be seen trying to raid a Baath party office in Sweida city. Some fled as gunshots from the building intensified, while chanting “peaceful protest.” One protester held the multi-colored Druze religion flag. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, protesters and religious figures gathered at the building’s courtyard and continued protesting.
Syria’s economy has been struggling after years of conflict, corruption and mismanagement, and Western-led sanctions over accusations of government involvement in war crimes and the illicit narcotics trade. The United Nations estimates that aboutSyria’s Druze community has mostly isolated itself from the country’s uprising-turned-conflict, now in its 13th year.
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