The fire fire began at the dawn on Friday in the city of Al-Haffa on the Mediterranean coast of Syria.
At first, Wala, a 29-year-old resident in the city, skipped his bed to the corner of his apartment room on the first floor, flattening while the shot shooting rat sounded outside the bedroom window.
When the commotion became stronger, he said he went out into the window and peeled the curtain. Outside, dozens of people fled the road, many in the pajamas, while four men with green forest uniforms pursued them. Then the uniformed men opened fire. In a few seconds, four of the fleeing people ruined on the ground.
« I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. He landed to me, terrified, » Wala said, who asked him to be identified only with his name for fear of remuneration.
The attack on his city was part the upset that has shaken the coast of Syria Over the last four days, he has killed more than 1,000 people, said Syrian Fough War Group Human Rights Group for Human Rights. He was the bloodiest outbreak of violence, as the rebels dismissed the dictator for a long time, Bashar al-Assad, in early December, sought to affirm his government on a country fractured by almost 14 years of Civil War.
The violence broke out on Thursday when armed men loyal to the Lord Al-Assad to ambush the government security forces in the province of Latakia, where Al-Haffa is located. The ambush fought on the days of confrontation between the faithful of Assad and the forces of the Government.
The Observatory, based in Britain and has been overseening the Syrian conflict since 2011, said on Sunday at the beginning of 700 civilians among the more than 1,000 deaths, most of them killed by government forces.
According to the Observatory, at least 65 civilians died in Al-Haffa.
Another war control group, the Syria Human Rights Network, said on Saturday that government security forces had killed 125 estimated civilians. These claims could not be verified independently.
New government officials rejected the allegations that their security forces had committed atrocities. But they said they were committed to investigating the allegations and to keep anyone who had harmed civilians.
The violence has proposed the spectrum of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria and has been panic in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus. The region is the heart of the Alawite minority of Syria, which dominated the ruling class and the upper ranks of the military under the ASSAD government and including the Assad family by itself. The new government was formed from a rebel coalition led by a Muslim group Sunnita Islamist.
The observatory said that most civilians killed in recent days were Alawites.
On Saturday, the road from the capital, Damascus, to Tartus was almost empty when authorities sought to seal all traffic in the coastal region. Government security forces established control points on the main roads to the city of Tartus and all the city of Tartus, the provincial capital, where most shops were closed and many residents were demolished in their homes.
Shadi Ahmed Khodar, 47, was on the road from Tartus to North to Latakia, seeing as occasional ambulance or government vehicle. He said that the streets of his neighborhood had been emptied as the violence paid attention to the last days, becoming Tartus in a ghost city. He is a Alawaite, but like many in the city, he said he does not support the Assad faithful who have taken weapons against the new Syria authorities.
But it was also scared that security forces with the new government were no longer distinguishing between the faithful of the armed Assad and the people like him, a cranes operator who had worked for the Assad government.
« Maybe they will only come here and they will say that we are against and they will kill us, » he said.
The country, who feared, was barring more conflict. Violence still had to be declined on Saturday afternoon, and on the road from where it was, the government forces at a control point were warning the drivers that the gunmen were ambushing the cars leading the coast to Latakia.
« We are in the shallow water, » Khodar said. « We have not yet reached the depths. »
In the nearby field of the province of Latakia, the Armed ASSAD faithful held dozens of government security staff after taking control one day earlier, according to residents. In other areas, local residents had taken weapons and parked away from home to protect their families, after listening to reports on the government forces killing civilians.
In Baniyas, a city in the northern tip of Tartus province, armed men who seemed to be with the government had stormed in the neighborhoods predominantly in Alawite on Thursday afternoon, according to four residents.
Ghaith Moustafa, a resident of Baniyas, said that he had spent most of Friday and Saturday hiding with his wife, Hala Hamed, and his two-month-old son behind the front door, the only place in his small apartment that was near no window.
On Friday morning, he said that he felt that the pattern of shootings became stronger when armed men arrived in his building. He then heard men shouting, fire shots and shouts coming from the apartment below. He later learned that his residents on the ground floor had been killed.
« I was so afraid of my baby, for my wife, » said Mr. Moustafa, 30, in a telephone interview. « I was so scared. I did not know how to show that he was also afraid of us. « »
When the gun fire disappeared around 2 p. Driving out of the house, it was horrified.
He said that every two or three meters, a body was on the ground. Blood stains were searched through the pavement. He said that the windows of the windows were destroyed and it seems that many shops had been looted.
The Syrian Observatory said on Saturday that at least 60 civilians, including five children, were killed in violence in Baniyas.
« I’m surprised, I’m surprised, » Moustafa, a pharmacist, said. On Saturday evening, all I could think was to leave. « We have to get out of here as soon as possible, » he added. « It’s not safe, not not sure. »
According to residents, Mr. Moustafa was among hundreds of people who fled Baniyas. Many sought refuge with friends who were not Alawite in the hope that their neighborhoods would avoid the violence more.
Wala, Al-Haffa’s resident, who said he saw men in uniforms by firing people like the fugitive, covered with friends and family in his apartment when security staff ravaged the front door, about an hour after the government’s forces had entered his city. A friend who visited from the northwestern region of Idlib, where the rebels who demolished the Lord Al-Assad came from, asked not to shoot.
« She said, » I’m from Idlib. All my family is from Idlib. Please do nothing to these people. They are a peaceful family, « Wala explained in a telephone interview.
The men demanded that the friend deliver his phone and call Wala to open -the safe, which he did. They demanded that Wala’s mother donate their necklace and gold earrings, Wala said.
Before leaving, the men issued a severe warning: Don’t leave the house. She and her relatives rushed to her bedroom, terrified.
But an hour later, as the fire fire declined, they challenged this order to try to help someone who could feel begging from the street.
Outside, Wala said he found two men who had been shot. One was covered with blood and he asked him with weak voice to raise his head a little from the ground. The other, fired on the thigh, begged the water.
Before the fire fire came out again and Wala returned inside. On Saturday evening, he said, he did not know if any man had survived.
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