Bashar al-Assad’s militias ‘cleansing’ Homs of Sunni Muslims


My comment:  The news about anything to do with Syria has been silenced lately.  While the world is distracted with George Zimmerman, &  the NSA spying whistleblower syria continues it’s descent into chaos.

The “Shabiha”, a loyalist militia drawn largely from the Syrian president’s Alawite sect, is systematically looting and then destroying the homes of any Sunnis who have fled the province, a key battleground in the country’s civil war.

“They pushed out the rebel fighters and now they are trying to push out all the Sunnis,” said Bilal, a 23-year-old from the Sunni village of Talkalakh in Homs province. “They took our houses, threatened us, destroyed our villages.”

The 13th-century mosque of Khalid Ibn al-Walid in Homs, which was damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling (AP)

Mr Assad’s regime has trained its military might on rebel strongholds in Homs province, winning back the border towns of Qusayr and Talkalakh, and shelling areas of the provincial capital.

The offensive is so intense that rebels admit they cannot hold out for much longer. It has also taken on a sectarian character, with the army on Monday bombarding the Sunni mausoleum of Khaled bin Walid, a companion of Prophet Mohammed. Whether this was intentional or a mistake is unclear.

 Telegraph.



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