Druze, Syria and sectarian violence
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The violence in the Druze-majority city was some of the most brutal in Syria since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December.
A fact-finding committee presented findings on a wave of sectarian killings earlier this year. Human rights experts said the report failed to hold the country’s security establishment accountable.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -A Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday that 1,426 people, including 90 women, were killed during the March 7-9 massacres of Syrian Alawites along the country's Mediterranean coast. The committee had come up with an initial list of 298 suspects and had sent two lists of names to the courts, spokesperson Yasser Farhan said.
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DPA International on MSNInquiry: Over 1,400 killed in March violence on Syrian coastA Syrian fact-finding committee on Tuesday confirmed that 1,426 people - mostly civilians, including many Alawites - were killed during a wave of violence in the country's coastal provinces between March 6 and 9.
Dozens of bodies could be seen lying on the ground at Sweida National Hospital following days of deadly clashes between Druze and Bedouins, and later with Syrian Security Forces in the city.
A Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday (July 22) that 1,426 people had died in March in attacks on security forces and subsequent mass killings of Alawites, but concluded that commanders had not given orders for the revenge attacks.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -A Syrian government fact-finding committee said on Tuesday that 1,426 people had died in March in attacks on security forces and subsequent mass killings of Alawites, but concluded that commanders had not given orders for the revenge attacks.
Suwayda, Syrian pharmacist Hala Saraya recounts the brutal killings of her family and pleads for the world to hear the Druze community's cry for help.
Syrian security forces are deploying in the restive province of Suwayda after days of communal fighting in which hundreds of people have been killed, the country’s interior ministry says.
Over 3,500 families from Bedouin, Druze communities fled their homes in Suwayda to Daraa, local authorities say - Anadolu Ajansı