Switzerland condemns attacks on civilians in the city of Soueida, in southern Syria. She calls on all parties to respect the ceasefire in force since Sunday in this stronghold of the Druze community.
The Confederation also requires an independent investigation, in collaboration with the United Nations, wrote the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE) on Tuesday on the social network X. The political transition in Syria must guarantee the protection and participation of all Syrians.
With some 700,000 inhabitants, the province of Soueida houses the country’s largest Druze community in the country, an esoteric minority from Shiite Islam. Druzes militias have been facing Sunni Bedouin tribes for a week, supported by the Damascus government and its allies.
More than 1,400 dead according to the Syrian authorities
Created by the new Syrian authorities, the National Commission of Inquiry into the Mars violence against the Alaouite minority in Syria indicated that it has identified 298 suspects involved in these abuses which left at least 1426 dead.
These conclusions intervene after a new bloodshed that targeted the Druze community, questioning the authorities’ ability to contain confessional tensions and restore security in the country more than seven months after the fall of the former power which arose as a protector of minorities.
Violence of a denominational nature that occurred in March on the Syrian coast left some 1,700 dead, the overwhelming majority resulting from the Alaouite minority to which the family of ex-deputy president Bashar al-Assad belongs, according to a report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
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