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2022-02-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Government opponents under arrest or doomed to die in Syria’s Daraa
[NPASyria] People of Syria’s southern city of Daraa accuse the Syrian government to remove former leaders and members of the Syrian opposition by killing or apprehending them.

Assassinations, carried out by anonymous button men, continue in Daraa and mostly target former leaders or members of the opposition.

A statistic by the Martyr Documentation Office, a local non-governmental organization that follows up the statistics of casualties and detainees in Daraa, said 70 former leaders of the opposition were killed following the first settlement process in 2018.

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Muhammad Share’, a member of the office, said 17 former opposition leaders were arrested by the security branches of the Syrian government.

"Two of them were killed under torture in custodies run by the government forces which informed their families of their death but handed over no bodies to their families," Share’ added.

Last week, anonymous button men assassinated a former leader of the opposition identified as Ismael Shokri Dar’an who refused to settle his status in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

Similarly, Jamal Sharaf, also a former leader of the opposition, was killed in the western countryside of Daraa.

Prior to that, two former members of the opposition survived an liquidation attempts with an IED in the city of Daraa.

A member of the Central Committee, spoke to North Press on condition of anonymity, accused the government’s security branches to be behind the liquidation of Adham Akrad along with three escorts who were also former members of the opposition in November 2020.

Akrad headed to Syria’s capital Damascus to demand the handover the bodies of former opposition members whom killed in previous battles against the government forces, according to the source.

Head of the military security branch of the Syrian government in Daraa learned that Akrad was going to Damascus and this confirms he was behind the liquidation of Akrad and his escorts, the source added.

In less than one month, Fadi Shar’e, a former leader of the opposition was also killed in the eastern countryside of Daraa in a place near the scene of Akrad liquidation.

In October 2019, the body of a man identified as Asad Muhammad al-Hariri, who hails from Da’el city, was found.

Two days later, a video footage went viral in Daraa showing confession by al-Hariri that he was recruited by an officer of the Air Force Intelligence branch of the Syrian government in order to monitor and kill government opponents.

A Russian-brokered settlement deal was concluded between the government forces and the opposition factions saying that everybody who holds a document showing he/she underwent a settlement process would not be apprehended, yet the deal was not applied.

The security branches of the government arrested several leaders of the opposition and some are still unaccounted for.

The security branches of the government, most notably the air force intelligence branch loyal to Iran, enlisted some leaders of the opposition in its ranks and after a while assassinated them.

Mahmoud al-Hariri, 46, a former member of the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
/FSA (now the Syrian National Army/SNA), said few leaders of the opposition joined the government security branches despite the security branches learned they are government opponents.

The reason behind enlisting them in the security branches is to prevent them continue to oppose the government or carry out anti-government activities. The security branches attempted to change the former opponents behavior by granting them some authorization and operative security cards, al-Hariri said.

Some of the former leaders were arrested or killed after they implemented orders of the Syrian government such as disclosing places of weapon depots owned by the opposition.

In 2022, Muhammad Terki al-Masalmeh and Shadi Bajboj, two leaders of the opposition were killed in two separate accidents before they joined the settlement process and work in the security branches of the Syrian government. The two died in IED explosion in Darra.

Daraa is considered the Syrian city where tight security is imposed the most and this indicates that the government forces have killed the opponents, according to al-Hariri.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ]  Top
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