Syria’s al-Sharaa vows to punish forces accountable for mass killings

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has stated that he’ll punish “even amongst these closest” to him for collaborating in mass killings within the nation’s coastal area days in the past.

Tons of are reported to have died within the violence, together with members of the Alawite minority, in addition to safety forces who had been ambushed by obvious supporters of the previous President Bashar al-Assad. Safety forces are accused of finishing up “revenge” assaults after the ambushes carried out in opposition to them.

“We fought to defend the oppressed, and we received’t settle for that any blood be shed unjustly, or goes with out punishment or accountability, even amongst these closest to us,” al-Sharaa stated in an interview with the Reuters information company on Monday.

“Many events entered the Syrian coast and plenty of violations occurred,” al-Sharaa added. “It turned a chance for revenge.”

Al-Assad is an Alawite, and plenty of main members of his regime, which was toppled in December, had been from the minority, with a lot of the nation’s Sunni majority feeling disenfranchised by a state famous for its mass killing of Syrians affiliated with the opposition.

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