SYRIA ‘1,383 civilians killed in violence’

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At least 1,383 civilians, the vast majority of them Alawites, were killed in a wave of violence that gripped Syria’s Mediterranean coast, a war monitor said Wednesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were killed in “executions by security forces and allied groups”, after a wave of violence broke out last week in the coastal heartland of the Alawite minority to which toppled president Bashar al-Assad belonged.

The Britain-based Observatory added that even as the violence subsided, the toll was still rising as bodies continued to be discovered, many on farmland or in their homes.

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The latest deaths were recorded in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus and in the neighbouring central province of Hama, it said.

It accused the security forces and allied groups of participating in “field executions, forced displacement and burning of homes, with no legal deterrent”.