On Friday, armed men killed at least two dozen male residents of an alaoute city in the rural coastal region of Syria, two Alawite activists and a war instructor, citing contacts in the region and video sequences of the scene.
Reuters was able to check the location of the video like Al Mukhtareyah, near the M4 main highway, using a road, buildings, trees and an electric pole that corresponded to satellite imaging of the village. He showed at least 20 men lying nearby – some bloody – by the road in the city center.
The precise date filmed, and which filmed it, could not be checked immediately, but the management of the shadows shows that it has been filmed in the morning in the last two months. Reuters could not independently confirm what had happened to the place.
Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted by the rebels who became Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham last year, strongly attracted the Alaoute community for the former security apparatus and the bureaucracy of the Syrian state.
Alawite activists claim that their community has been subject to violence and attacks since the fall of Assad, especially in rural homs and latakies.
Rami Abdulrahman, of the Syrian Observatory based in the United Kingdom for Human Rights, said that local sources had declared to his organization that 38 men of the country's alaouite minority had been killed in the style of execution in the city.
“Armed men from the management of the Idlib region arrived at dawn and gathered men while saying to women to stay at home. The men were then executed,” said Abdulrahman.
The two Alawite activists, who spoke under the guise of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case, said that the murders were Friday and blamed them to the armed men affiliated to the new Islamist leader authority in Syria.
A government spokesperson and two officials related to the executive authority did not immediately respond to the texts asking for comments.
The security forces have sent reinforcements to the coastal region of their Idlib bastion and neighboring areas to crush an emerging insurrection by the combatants who, according to them, are linked to Assad.
Abdulrahman said that the observatory had checked several other incidents in the past 24 hours when Men Allawites had been killed or humiliated, in particular by being done to bark like dogs.
Reuters could not independently confirm the reports.
