PJ : "The terrorists are killing everyone. Children, women, teenagers, old people — just killing," a Syrian Christian said in a video posted to X today.
Read it all here...."Please, please, please — the media is not showing you anything." The slaughter isn't limited to Christians, as members of the Alawite faith are also being murdered by the forces in control of most of post-Assad Syria.
To be fair, the whole sordid mess seems to have kicked off last week as Assad regime dead-enders (the Assad family is Alawite, a syncretic religion with Muslim, Christian, and other elements) with attacks that "included killings and mass displacement of civilians along the country’s Mediterranean coast," according to a Wall Street Journal report today.
Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser at International Crisis Group, claimed that the Alawite forces were "baited into" last week's attacks, "and they definitely walked into the trap and acted in the worst possible way." The new Syrian regime, established after the fall of Bashar al-Assad last year, is led by former al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa. I always wonder how "former" he actually is.
Due to the ongoing digital assault against X, I'm unable to embed posts in this column like I usually would. But you can still watch the video here.
Reliable estimates are difficult, maybe even impossible to come by. The ones I've found so far indicate that anywhere between 1,200 and 7,000 Christians and Alawites have been murdered over the last two days.
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