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One of the militants told her to take her gold off and said that otherwise they’d kill her daughter,
the resident said
The killing of civilians in coastal areas in northwest Syria must cease, immediately,
the U.N. commissioner for human rights Volker Türk, said SundayImagine your husband and three boys being killed in front of you,
said the resident, who was not there at the time but relayed accounts from his neighborsNo one will be above the law, and all those whose hands are stained with Syrian blood will face justice — fairly and without delay,
Sharaa said SundayEntire families were being wiped out,
one doctor working in al-Qadmus, a town perched in the mountains in Tartus province, said of the bloodshedAs an Alawite, I don’t see I have a future here in Syria,
said one 36-year-old from the coastal town of Jableh, who hid in an abandoned building to escape the killingsThey entered homes and carried out mass killings of all Alawites,
she saidI am still alive, but I don’t know if that will be the case one hour from now or one day from now,
he saidOn Friday morning, at 8 am, military factions entered Baniyas with militias from the region, particularly from Bayda [a village 12 kilometers to the south], where a massacre had been committed during the time of the al-Assad regime. There were foreigners with them, Turkmen and Chechens. They started killing people. They were everywhere,
said a resident of an Alawite neighborhood in this multi-faith town on the Syrian coast
There are six of us in the house, with my parents and my brothers. There’s been no electricity for four days, no water. We have nothing to eat and we do not dare go out,
he said on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety
They gathered all the men on the roof and opened fire on them,
Haidar saidWe turned off the lights and hid. When we were able to flee our neighbourhood of Al Qusour, we found the roads full of corpses,
Kamel, a 35-year-old mother, told AFPThere are houses with four or five dead bodies in them,
Haidar saidGod willing, we will be able to live together in this country,
he said at a mosque in DamascusIf I had been five minutes late, I would have been killed.”
He managed to escape with his wife and two children to a Sunni neighbourhood, but saidMore than 50 people from among my family and friends have been killed,
he addedThey entered the building and killed my only neighbour,
he saidWhat crime did the children commit? Are they also supporters of the (toppled) regime?”
she saidWe have appealed to be able to bury our dead,
he saidSurrender before it is too late."
Meanwhile, interim President al-Sharaa has urged fighters to lay down their arms, warning