⚠️Warning: Distressing footage – The Cradle
⚠️Warning: Distressing footage
Video shows the bodies of Alawites dumped in the orchards of the village of Bsmaqa in Tartous countryside, filmed 12 March 2025, according to the Syrian Coast Observatory.
According to the man filming the video and other eyewitnesses, the HTS-led General Security forces are responsible for the massacres—a security checkpoint was established at the Dreikish junction in Bsamaqa, but they did not answer calls for help. They also detained the young man Mohammad Melhem from the village of Ain Baluj. His body was later found on 12 March.
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