Fall of Khalidiya flourishes Sunni market in pro-Assad neighborhoods of Homs

 Sunni markets in the Alawite neighborhoods of the city of homs are flourishing again after The fall of Khalidiya last July.

Sources from al-Nuzha and al-Hadhara, pro-Assad neighborhoods, assured that huge numbers of the stolen goods from Khalidiya were invaded the Sunni markets.

''Even the electricity cables were stolen, everything, everything'' Zaman Alwasl source said

 Telegraph reporter, Ruth sherlock, mentioned the Sunni markets of Homs in a report last July where the stolen goods are taken to a loyalist Alawite district and sold at what has become known as "the Sunni Market".

A female activist, calling herself Yam al-Homsi, secretly filmed the market: "I pretended I wanted to buy a cheap laptop. The market has everything you can imagine; from Adidas trainers to furniture," she said to Telegraph.

"They even took the doors, tiles and electric cables from the homes. The Shabiha are organised: some loot the houses, whilst others sell the goods. They are not ashamed. One man told me it was a 'gift from the war'."

After each campaign, however, Alawite civilians and loyalist paramilitaries from the National Defence Force have stormed the newly recaptured towns and villages, looting Sunni homes and often setting them on fire, with the apparent aim of ensuring that the owners have nothing left to return to.

 Other residents told the Telegraph that Alawite neighbours are now storing the stolen goods on their farms.

Most of the Sunnis of Talkalakh have now fled, but those who have stayed are being given incentives to leave. Alawite businessmen from neighborhing villages are offering to buy the homes of Sunnis, on the condition that they leave: "They come up to people and say 'we can buy your house. You need the money and why do you want to stay in this village? It's better to get out'," said one man speaking by phone from Talkalakh.

The attacks have not been discouraged by the government. Residents say the Syrian army has watched the looters from the sidelines, and in some cases helped them.

 Over 500,000 refugees, most of them Sunni, have now fled into neighbouring Lebanon. Some have little hope of returning to thier homes. "Maybe in the future if Syria is free, I hope the relationship can be good again between Sunni and Alawites," said Bilal, speaking from the empty building on the Lebanon-Syria border that is now his home. "But I don't think it can happen".