Sweden (Syria), 26 July (AP) The match of the broken bodies hangs heavily in the streets of the provincial capital in the southern province of Syria, where the fighting recently broke out. Once the busy road now lies terribly quiet, only a few people pass by. In some areas, the destruction is stunning, with buildings and cars committed black.
At the branch of the bank, the fragmented glass covered the fragmented glass as an alarm by nonstop. The walls are decorated with slogans and graffiti on both sides in a recent conflict.
The devastation came after the outbreak of violent clashes two weeks ago, induced by the kidnapping of tit-for-for-armed Bedouin clans and fighters from the other religious minority. Fighting was killed by hundreds of people and there was a risk of breaking up a fragile post -war transition of Syria.
The Syrian government forces seem to have been struggling to end the fighting, but effectively coated clans. Some government fighters reportedly robbed and executed other civilians.
The Associated Press journalists from outside the city were able to enter Friday on Friday from Sweid for the first time since the beginning of the 13th of July. When the inhabitants of Sweid try to pick up the pieces of their lives.
In the main hospital, where the bodies were killed in combat for days, the workers crushed the floor, but the smell persisted.
Manal Harb was there with his injured 19 -year -old son Safi Dargham, the first student of engineering to be shot in volunteering in a huge hospital.
“Sniper hit him in front of the hospital,” she said. “We are civilians and we have no weapons.”
Safi suffered an elbow injury, behind his ear and leg. Harb says he can lose his arm if he doesn’t get urgent treatment.
Harb’s husband, Khaled Dargham, was killed when the armed man attacked their home, shot him and lit the house. She said armed men also stole their phones and other things.
Em Hassib (“Mother Hassib”), a nurse of an emergency room who only gave her nickname, said she stayed in the hospital with her children during the conflict. She argued that at one point government fighters who were brought to the hospital for treatment began fire and killed a police officer guarding the hospital and injured others. AP could not independently verify her claim.
She said the bodies had accumulated for days and no one had removed them and became a medical danger.
Sectarian tension cooks when the species resists disarmament
The cancellation videos and messages from Sweid have emerged, showing that other civilians are humiliated and executed during the conflict, sometimes accompanied by sectarian slots. After the ceasefire, some groups of the other started revengeful attacks on the Bedouin community. The UN said more than 130,000 people were displaced by force.
Government officials, including interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, promised to have those who focused on civilians, but many Sweida residents remain angry and suspected.
The religious sect of the other is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shia Islam. There are about a million second worldwide and more than half of them live in Syria. Others live in Lebanon and Israel, even in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the War in the Middle East in 1967 and joined in 1981.
The other was largely welcomed by the fall of former President Bashar Assad in December in the rebel offensive, which ended the decade of the autocratic government of the Assad dynasty.
However, the new government under al-Sharaa, a former Islamist commander who once had al-Qaeda’s ties, drew mixed reactions from the leaders of the other. Some of the clergy supported the involvement in the new leadership, while others, including the spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri and his military council Sweid, opposed him.
Al-Sharaa denied targeting the other and accused riots of armed groups defying state authority, especially those who were loyal to al-hijri. He also accused Israel of the deepening of divisions by affecting the Syrian forces in Sweida, attacks that were carried out under the pretext of other defense.
TALAL JARAMANY, 30 -year -old owner of the Resort, took weapons during the fighting.
“What made me have a military uniform and go to the front lines is that what happened was illegal,” said Associated Press.
Jaramans insisted that there was a low resolution between the Bedouin clans and the general security forces of the government. “They used weapons, not dialogue,” he said.
He rejects calls for disarming and says that the other needs his weapons for self -defense.
“We will not pass our hands. Our weapon is sacred,” he said. “It is not for the attack. We have never been a supporters of war. We only give up when the state provides real security that protects human rights.”
Sweid’s Christians also tell almost death leaks.
Members of the Christian minority of Sweida were also driven by violence.
In a church where many Christian families hidden, 36-year-old Walaa al-Shammas, a housewife with two children, said the rocket hit her home on July 16th.
“If we weren’t stealing in the hallway, we would be gone,” she said. “My house is destroying and our cars are gone.”
The shooters came to the damaged house later, but continued and apparently thought it was empty when the family was hiding in the hallway, she said.
In recent days, hundreds of people – Bedouins and others and Christians – evacuated Sweid in convoys that buses transfer them to other areas organized by the Syrian red crescent. Others found their own way out.
Michelin Jaber, a public employee in the Provincial Government in Sweida, tried to escape from clashes with his husband, son -in -law and prolonged family members last week, when two cars got under the shelling. She was injured, but survived with her brother -in -law and the young son of one of her husband’s siblings.
Her husband and other family members were killed.
Someone, Jaker does not know who, he loaded it and two more survivors in the car and took them to the crew of an ambulance that evacuated them to the hospital outside the city. Then she was taken to another hospital in the southwestern city of Daraa and was eventually transported to Damascus. Now she stays with friends in the suburbs of Damascus in Jaramana, her arms closed in bandages.
“When the shell hit the car, I came out alive – I could get out of the car and walk normally,” Jaker said. “When you see all the people who have died and I am still here, I do not understand it. God has its reasons.”
One thing that comforts her is that her 15 -year -old daughter was at that time with her parents elsewhere and was not damaged.
“My daughter is the most important thing and she gives me strength,” Jaker said. (AP) SKS GRS GRS
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