AFPIn the last five days, Reema says that she has seen “barbaric” scenes.
The 45-year-old Drews woman lives in her entire life in Southern Syrian city of Suveda, and she never thought that her once-a hometown would become a scene of a bloodshed.
“There were bodies everywhere outside our building,” he told the BBC in a phone interview, using a pseudo -name to protect it.
Reema said that she entered her house, for unimaginable, gunmen – government forces and foreign fighters – went through their neighborhood earlier this week, going to door -to -door in search of their next hunt.
“One of the worst emotions is that people have to wait to come to your house and decide if we should live or die,” he remembered, his voice is still trembling with fear.
The violence left Reema and her neighbors in her homes and felt fearful, as bullets and shells looked out.
The long -running tension between the drews and the Bedouin tribes in Suveda exploded in a deadly communal clashes on Sunday after the abduction of a draus merchant on the highway of the capital Damascus on Sunday.
As the battle spread to other parts of the southern province, interim President Ahmed al-Shara’s government-he dismissed the rule of Bashar al-Assad by Islamist-led rebels in December and declared that it would deploy the army of the Ministry of Internal and Defense to “restore”.
Since the collapse of Assad, some local drains have rejected the presence of security forces in Suveda city. When government forces were deployed on Tuesday, the fight increased.
Soon, the government’s armies were being accused of attacking both the Drews fighters and the citizens, which motivated the Israeli army to intervene with a series of air strikes, which was said to protect the draus.
As Reema watched the drama, the internet and the lack of power made it difficult to live with the revelations revealed. She knew what she could see from her window: killed bodies and burnt buildings.
The Syrian state media has also quoted officials and the Bedouin tribes, saying that the “outlavage group” committed “massacres” and other crimes against Bedouin fighters and citizens.
The UK-based monitoring group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights for Human Rights has said that it has documented murder At least 594 people from SundayThe 154 druzes, including citizens, 83 of whom were briefly killed by government forces, and three members of the indigenous tribes who were briefly killed by the Drews fighters.
RootsNayaf, a drew man whose name we have also changed, Suveda was also faced with frightening scenes.
“We are collecting bodies from the roads. We found the dead bodies outside the houses for two or three days,” he told the BBC in a phone interview.
Despite being a government employee, Nayaf entered the city as the cruelty of the government forces.
“They brought storms to the neighborhood, selecting houses that look rich. They looted these houses and then tortured them. They sprinkled unarmed citizens with bullets.”
Videos that wandering on social media appeared supporting the allegations of Nayef.
The footage shared on Facebook on Wednesday afternoon depicts at least half a dozen men, who are dressed in a live round in a group of residents, who are kneeling on the pavement.
The United Nations Human Rights Office said that it had documented the murder of at least 13 people on Tuesday, who had deliberately set fire to a family meeting by armed men associated with the government. The same day, he allegedly killed six people near his homes.
While the bullets and shells rained, the residents of Suveda were surprised that when help was coming, he was surprised.
But it never came.
Reema said she sees as security forces and foreign fighters entered her neighborhood and later shot her neighbor in front of her mother.
“Is it the army and security force that protect us and protect us?” He asked. “People’s livelihood was stolen. Those who were killed were young and unarmed.”
Other testimony we supported Reema’s claim. Most of the people who talked, most of the fighters entered Suveda and attacked citizens, appeared to be Islamists.
A woman heard the fighters shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God the greatest) in her building, called the draus “infidels” and “boar”, and said they were there to kill them.
Some of these fighters posted videos of men who humiliated themselves online in Suveda, including cutting or shaving the mustache of the drew sheikhs. Mustache Drews are a symbol of religious identity.
The BBC has approached the Syrian government for official comments on the issue, but has not received any response so far.
At a television address in early Thursday, Shara vowed to justify criminals and promise to protect the “priority” to the drew.
He said, “We are eager to justify those who moved and abused our drews because they are subject to the security and responsibility of the state,” he said.
He said that his leaders said “the dialogue dismissed for several months”.
RootsFor many people, safety promised like Déjà Vu.
This was a concerted by the message when the President had reprimanded the government forces and allied Islamic fighters in response to the attacks of Assad loyalists in the coastal region in March.
A committee was established to investigate those violations – but no one is yet to give conclusions.
Nayef and other people’s accounts gather many similarities with whatever happened on the coast in March.
“There is a total lack of faith with the government,” Nayef said. “They are just a lip-service. They say good things about freedom, document violations and accountability, but they are all lies.”
Many Suveda residents say that this latest episode of communal violence will have long -lasting effects.
A woman told the BBC, “If it was not to bomb Israel, we will not be able to talk to you today.”
However, some were also important for Israel’s aerial attack and claimed that it was working to protect the draus.
Nayaf said: “Nobody wants Israel. We are people of patriotism. We were at the forefront of people to adopt patriotism. Our loyalty and patriotism should not be doubted.”
Additional reporting by Samantha Granville in Beirut
