(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has sent new conscription calls for Eastern Ghouta's young men to perform the military service, activists said Friday.
About 4,000 young men have to join the regime army in January as regime seek to enlist about 50,000 people from the eastern enclave of Damascus in the Army after almost seven yours of the Army siege on Ghouta, activist Asaad Abdul Wahhab told Zaman al-Wasl.
Last November, 3000 people in Ghouta suburbs were ordered to join the army despite some names belong to people killed or displaced, according to name list by the General Conscription Department.
Most of the Syrian young men in the capital's eastern suburbs have rejected the regime’s conscription call but the reconciliation deals have imposed a new de-facto. They should join the army or they might face the military intelligence arrest.
The fall of Eastern Ghouta last April was achieved in a brutal fashion and had changed the course of the war.
More than 1,700 civilians were reportedly killed in the eight-week offensive.
The Eastern Ghouta was the scene of the first major protests in the capital against the rule of Bashar al-Assad.
Bashar al-Assad urged all Syrians, including the Druze minority, to send its young men to the army.
The regime had previously issued a decree to deprive anyone who evades reserve service from applying for employment in regime sectors, even though he was among the beneficiaries of the so-called "amnesty" order. If that person was wanted in a previous period, according to media sources.
The Alawites-dominated areas are still the main manpower supply for the Assad's army.
More than 125,000 pro-regime forces have been killed in seven years of brutal war, according to local monitoring groups.
Since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, more than 560,000 people have been killed, and more than 6 million people have been displaced.
Zaman Al Wasl
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