Syria: Maintaining security in Soueida transferred to the Druzes

Syrian president Ahmad al-Chareh announced Thursday the transfer “to local factions. Furthermore, Druzes cheiks” responsibility for maintaining security in Soueida (South), theater of bloody claims since Sunday. In addition, – Syria: maintaining security soueida transferred

(Keystone-ATS) “We have given priority to the interest of Syrians rather than chaos and destruction,” said Mr.al-Chareh in a television address.

“We have decided that local factions. Nevertheless, wise Sheikhs would assume responsibility for maintaining security in Soueida,” he said, evoking “the need to avoid sinking into a new syria: maintaining security soueida transferred large-scale war” after four days of violence.

“We had two options: an open war with the Israeli entity at the expense of our Druze people. its security and the stability of Syria and the whole region, or give the old and the sheikhs Druzes the possibility of returning to reason and giving priority to national interest,” he explained.

Clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribes. Druzes fighters, an esoteric minority from the Ismaelian branch of Shiism, broke out in the province of Soueida on Sunday after the kidnapping of a Druze vegetable merchant.

“Summary executions”

The Syrian government forces. deployed since Tuesday in the city of Soueida, began to withdraw from it Wednesday following a cease-fire agreement, after being accused of having fought alongside the Bedouin tribes.

According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH). an organization based in the United Kingdom and which relies on a vast network of sources in Syria, clashes have syria: maintaining security soueida transferred left more than 350 dead since Sunday, including 27 civilian victims of “summary executions by members of the Ministries of Defense and the Interior”.

In his speech. Ahmad al-Shareh promised to “account” to the authors of abuses against “our Druze people, who is under the protection and responsibility of the State”.

“The Syrian state has intervened to end the clashes between armed groups of Soueida. neighboring regions,” said the interim president.

He accused Israel. who bombed Syria by claiming to act in support of the Druzes, of having to “use a large -scale targeting of civil and government facilities to undermine these efforts, which led to a significant complication of the situation and pushed things to a large -scale escalation, except for the effective intervention of American, Arab and Turkish mediation, ».

Mr.al-Chareh did not specify which Arab countries had intervened in mediation. On Wednesday. the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced “an syria: maintaining security soueida transferred agreement on specific measures that will end this disturbing and terrifying situation” in Syria.