For Immediate Release (Westlake Village, CA) — Human Rights organization, Christian Solidarity International (CSI), is warning that conditions for genocide continue to exist in parts of Syria controlled by Ahmed al-Sharaa’s HTS – an al Qaeda spin-off that has been designated a terrorist organization by the UN Security Council. CSI is in touch with its partners on the ground in Tartous and Latakia provinces, where the killings took place, and is preparing a humanitarian aid response.
Over 1,000 civilians, mainly from the Alawite religious minority, have been massacred in recent days in an orgy of targeted killings, accompanied by dehumanizing hate speech. According to HTS’s jihadist ideology, Alawites – an ancient heterogenous religious sect – are outside any protection offered by traditional Islamic law.
The executions mark a resumption of the violent religious cleansing committed by al-Sharaa’s al Qaeda affiliate and other Sunni jihadists during Syria’s “Arab Spring.” Prior to seizing power last December from Assad’s secular dictatorship, al-Sharaa’s jihadists religiously cleansed Syria’s northwestern Idlib province of its Alawite population. The region’s Druze and Christian populations were also largely driven out.
CSI is urging the member states of the United Nations, especially the member states of the Security Council, to fulfill their obligations under international law to prevent genocide in Syria, and to protect those in danger of perishing as a result of genocide.
For the full statement from CSI click here.
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