(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 residents of Eastern Ghouta suburbs were arrested by the regime security last week as regime tracks young men who escaped conscription.
The arrest campaign took place in Kafr Batna, Harasta and neighboring suburbs east of the capital, local activists say.
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.
In the last few months, the regime army has sent about 5000 conscription calls for Eastern Ghouta's young men to perform the military service despite some names belong to people killed or displaced, according to name list by the General Conscription Department.
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.
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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