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Damascus: Around midnight on March 6, since a wave of sectarian murders was in the west of the Syrian Arab Republic, masked the houses of the Alauita families in the Damascus capital and arrested more than two boxes of unarmed men, witnesses said.
Those tasks of the Al-Qadam neighborhood included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alauita, the minority sect of the demolished leader Bashar Assad.
A group of loyal alauitas to Assad had launched an incipient insurgency hours before in coastal areas, about 200 miles (320 km) to the northwest. That unleashed a juerga of revenge murders there that for the last time left hundreds of dead alauitas.
The interim president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, told Reuters that he sent his forces the next day to stop violence on the coast, but that some combatants who flooded the region to crush the uprising did it without defense authorization.
Amid the fear of a broader sectarian conflict in Syria, the Sharaa government struggled to emphasize due to the violence that the murders were geographically limited. He called a research committee to investigate “the events on the coast.”
According to the accounts of 13 witnesses in Damascus, however, the sectarian violence extended to the southern edges of the capital of Syria, a few kilometers from the presidential palace. The details of Det of the alleged raids, kidnappings and murders have not been previously informed.
“Any Alauita home, demolished men from the inside,” said a resident, whose relative, 48 -year -old telecommunications engineer, Ihsan Zeidan, was tasks of masked people in the early hours of March 7.
“They put it purely because it is alauita.”
All witnesses who spoke with Reuters requested anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The neighborhood of Al-Qadam is well known for being the home of many Auitas families. In total, witnesses said, in leases, 25 men were tasks. At least 12 of them were later confirmed dead, according to relatives and neighbors, who said they saw photographs of the bodies or found them dead nearby.
The rest of the men have not heard the leg.
Four of the witnesses said that some of the armed men who came to Al-Qadam identified themselves as members of the General Security Service (GSS), a new Syrian agency that includes the former rebels.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, under which the GSS operates, told Reuters that the force “did not sign directly to Alawwites. The security forces are confiscating weapons of all sects.”
The spokesman did not answer more questions, including why disarmed men were supposedly tasks in thesis operations.
Yasser Farhan, spokesman for the committee that investigates sectarian violence, said his work has been limited to the coast, so he had not investigated cases in Al-Qadam. “But there may be deliberations within the committee at a later time to expand our work,” he told Reuters.
Alauitas comprise about 10 percent of the population of Syria, concentrated in the coastal heart of Latakia and Tartus. Thousands of Alauita families have also lived in Damascus for decades and in provincial cities such as Homs and Hama.

Impunity cycle
Wuman Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin requested an exhaustive investigation of the alleged raids, in response to Reuters reports.
“Families deserve answers, and the authorities must ensure that those responsible are responsible, regardless of their affiliation,” he said. “Until that happens, the cycle of violence and impunity will continue.”
Four of the confirmed men killed in Damascus were from the same extended family, according to a relative who escaped from the raid hiding in a upper floor with the young children of the family.
They were Mohmoud Badran, 77, Fadi Mohsen Badran, 41, Ayham Hussein Badran, a 40 -year -old boy born with two fingers in his right hand, a birth defect that disqualified him from the army service and his broth.
The relatives visited the Mujtahid hospital in the center of Damascus in search of their bodies, but the staff denied access to the Morue and sent them to the GSS branch in Al-Qadam, said the witness.
An official showed photographs on a telephone of the four men, dead. The cause of death was not given and any of the images could be determined, said the relative.
The official told the family to pick up the bodies of the Mujtahid hospital, but the staff denied that they had them.
“We make them able to find them, and we are too scared to ask anyone,” the relative told Reuters.
The director of the Mohammad Halbouni hospital, of the Mujtahid hospital, told Reuters that any Al-Qadam body was tasks directly to the Department of Forensic Medicine below. The staff said they had no information to share.
The Interior Ministry spokesman did not answer the questions about whether the forces at the Al-Qadam station were linked to deaths.
Sharaa has announced the dissolution of all rebel groups and their planned integration into the Ministry of Restructured Defense of Syria. But the total command and control over the various features, sometimes rivals, is still difficult to achieve.
Four other men said the same night were found in a garden near Al-Qadam, with gunshot wounds that indicate that they were killed “execution style”, according to a second resident, who told Reuters that the family quickly buried the bodies.
Reuters could not independently confirm the details of the account.
Another set of four men was confirmed by their relatives, who received photographs of the bodies on the WhatsApp messaging platform on Thursday, almost three weeks after they were tasks.
The images, reviewed by Reuters, represented four men on the floor with blood and bruises on their faces. One of them was identified by the relative as Samer Asaad, a 45 -year -old man with a mental disability who was tasks on the night of March 6.
Most of those seized are still missing.
They include University student Ali Rustom, 25, and his father Tamim Rustom, a 65 -year -old retired mathematics teacher, two relatives told Reuters. “We have no evidence, bodies, or information,” said one.

‘All I want is to leave’
A relative from Rabih Aqel, a mechanic, said his family had asked at the local police station and other security agencies, but they were told that they had no information about the whereabouts of Aqel.
He drew parallels with forced disappearances under Assad, when Miles disappeared in a labyrinthical prison system. In many cases, families would learn years later that their relatives had died in detention.
She and the other witnesses said they have not approached the Investigation Committee.
Farhan, the committee spokesman, told journalists on Tuesday that its members had interviewed whiteness in several coastal districts and had two more cities to visit.
All witnesses said they felt under pressure to leave Al-Qadam specifically because they were alauitas. Some already had.
A young resident said that armed men had come home several times in the week after Assad’s welcome, demanding evidence that the family owned the house and had not been affiliated with the family expelled from Assad.
He and his family have spread, asking Sunni Muslim neighbors to take care of their home.
Others said they had stopped going to work or that they were only moving during the day to avoid the possible trial.
Another woman of about sixty said she was looking to sell her home in Al-Qadam due to the risks that her husband or children would be tasks. “After what happened, everything I want to leave the area.”