(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 81 regime officers and soldiers from Latakia province have been killed in the last two weeks, local activist said.
The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Syrian revolution on Wednesday.
The peaceful demonstrations that ended up with deadly war carried out by the Syrian regime and key regional players has killed at least 465,000 people, including 150,000 children and has displaced over 12 million people.
The Syrian regime has not published official figures on its war dead. Syrian state television mostly fails to broadcast news of Alawite soldiers killed, instead playing up the deaths of their Sunni comrades, in a bid to shore up Sunni support, according to the Telegraph.
The Alawites, the Assad family's sect, have seen up to a third of their young men killed in the Syrian conflict and mothers are now refusing to send their sons to war.
Sharing their sect with Bashar al-Assad, Alawites have long been the core constituency for the Syrian regime. As the war ends its sixth year, the minority sect is seen by opposition rebels as remaining unwaveringly loyal.
In the Assad regime's heartland, dead officers are sent home in ambulances, while the corpses of ordinary soldiers are returned in undecorated pick-up trucks.
The loss of life is causing a quiet rebellion among many in the sect: vilified by the increasingly extremist rebel opposition, most still feel they have little choice but to remain wedded to the regime. But it is an alliance tinged with hatred. (With The Telegraph)
The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Syrian revolution on Wednesday.
The peaceful demonstrations that ended up with deadly war carried out by the Syrian regime and key regional players has killed at least 465,000 people, including 150,000 children and has displaced over 12 million people.
The Syrian regime has not published official figures on its war dead. Syrian state television mostly fails to broadcast news of Alawite soldiers killed, instead playing up the deaths of their Sunni comrades, in a bid to shore up Sunni support, according to the Telegraph.
The Alawites, the Assad family's sect, have seen up to a third of their young men killed in the Syrian conflict and mothers are now refusing to send their sons to war.
Sharing their sect with Bashar al-Assad, Alawites have long been the core constituency for the Syrian regime. As the war ends its sixth year, the minority sect is seen by opposition rebels as remaining unwaveringly loyal.
In the Assad regime's heartland, dead officers are sent home in ambulances, while the corpses of ordinary soldiers are returned in undecorated pick-up trucks.
The loss of life is causing a quiet rebellion among many in the sect: vilified by the increasingly extremist rebel opposition, most still feel they have little choice but to remain wedded to the regime. But it is an alliance tinged with hatred. (With The Telegraph)
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