(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military police clashed with residents of al-Da'tour neighborhood in coastal Latakia city who refuse to join the army and its backed militias, eye-witnesses said.
The poor neighborhood that inhabits by the Murshidis sect, a tiny minority diverted from the Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, defied regime call to join army as well urged its young men to escape the conscription, such a demand pushed regime forces to take the wanted people by force to join battlefields.
Morhij Na'ous, a resident in Da'tour, told Zaman al-Wasl via a phone call that the clash would not be developed to confront the regime, but what happened could be a message to improve living conditions and public services, even if they needed to use force to achieve that, like what happen in the Diesel tanker incident, Na'ous added.
Da'tour, the northeastern neighborhood of Latakia, is a home for 25,000 people, and for decades has been considered as one of the most deprived areas in the mountainous province.
Residents say no day pass without a news about death of a young man of the neighborhood who join the army, or other regime support militias like National Defense forces, as regime used their need for monthly income to convince them to join its forces.
The clashes are not expected to turn the neighborhood into a position against the regime, according to residents but they might use force to improve their living conditions.
An eye-witness said many young men had refused to get on the patrol’s vehicle of military police, which led to hand fighting, then developed into shooting in air, resulted in injuring a woman was at her house’s balcony, then the patrol left the neighborhood fearing of residents’ reactions.
Activist Mohammed al-Sahili reported that another incident took place last week, when residents of Da'tour had forced a diesel tanker’s driver to stop and seized the diesel amount and distributed over them.
Al-Murshdiyya or Murshidis is an alawite sub-sect modern emerged in the 20th century as a split-off group from Alawite sect. the number of Murshidis in Syria is estimated by 300,000, positioned mainly in Latakia, Tartus and Homs.
The poor neighborhood that inhabits by the Murshidis sect, a tiny minority diverted from the Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, defied regime call to join army as well urged its young men to escape the conscription, such a demand pushed regime forces to take the wanted people by force to join battlefields.
Morhij Na'ous, a resident in Da'tour, told Zaman al-Wasl via a phone call that the clash would not be developed to confront the regime, but what happened could be a message to improve living conditions and public services, even if they needed to use force to achieve that, like what happen in the Diesel tanker incident, Na'ous added.
Da'tour, the northeastern neighborhood of Latakia, is a home for 25,000 people, and for decades has been considered as one of the most deprived areas in the mountainous province.
Residents say no day pass without a news about death of a young man of the neighborhood who join the army, or other regime support militias like National Defense forces, as regime used their need for monthly income to convince them to join its forces.
The clashes are not expected to turn the neighborhood into a position against the regime, according to residents but they might use force to improve their living conditions.
An eye-witness said many young men had refused to get on the patrol’s vehicle of military police, which led to hand fighting, then developed into shooting in air, resulted in injuring a woman was at her house’s balcony, then the patrol left the neighborhood fearing of residents’ reactions.
Activist Mohammed al-Sahili reported that another incident took place last week, when residents of Da'tour had forced a diesel tanker’s driver to stop and seized the diesel amount and distributed over them.
Al-Murshdiyya or Murshidis is an alawite sub-sect modern emerged in the 20th century as a split-off group from Alawite sect. the number of Murshidis in Syria is estimated by 300,000, positioned mainly in Latakia, Tartus and Homs.
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