Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, new Islamist authorities in Syria are accused of carrying out mass summary executions and widespread human rights abuses against civilians and former government officials. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that at least 35 people have been killed in the past 72 hours, mostly former Assad-era officers who surrendered to the new regime. The Observatory also alleges that members of local armed groups, affiliated with the Islamist coalition, are committing reprisals against the Alawite minority, targeting them with violence and settling old scores. Civil society organizations have reported civilian casualties in the western Homs region during a recent security sweep.
Fighters affiliated with Syria's new Islamist leaders have carried out 35 summary executions over 72 hours, mostly of Assad -era officers, a war monitor said on Jan. 26. The authorities, installed by the rebel forces that toppled longtime president Bashar al- Assad last month, said they had carried out multiple arrests in the western Homs area over unspecified'violations.'said the authorities on Jan.
24 accused members of a'criminal group' who used a security sweep to commit abuses against residents,'posing as members of the security services.' The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said that'these arrests follow grave violations and summary executions that had cost the lives of 35 people over the past 72 hours.'Most of those executed are former officers in the toppled Assad government who had presented themselves in centers set up by the new authorities, according to the Britain-based monitor with a network of sources inside Syria. 'Dozens of members of local armed groups under the control of the new Sunni Islamist coalition in power who participated in the security operations' in the Homs area'have been arrested,' the Observatory said. It added that these groups'carried out reprisals and settled old scores with members of the Alawite minority to which Bashar al-Assad belongs, taking advantage of the state of chaos, the proliferation of arms, and their ties to the new authorities.' The Observatory listed'mass arbitrary arrests, atrocious abuse, attacks against religious symbols, mutilations of corpses, summary and brutal executions targeting civilians,' which it said showed'an unprecedented level of cruelty and violence.' Civil Peace Group, a civil society organization, said in a statement that there had been civilian victims in multiple villages in the Homs area during the security sweep.Since seizing power, the new authorities have sought to reassure religious and ethnic minorities in Syria that their rights would be upheld. Members of Assad's Alawite minority have expressed fear of retaliation over abuses during his clan's decades in power
SYRIA ISLAMIST LEADERS ASSAD HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES SUMMARY EXECUTIONS ALAWITE MINORITY HOMS CIVIL WAR
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