(Zaman Al Wasl)- The unstable security condition in southern Daraa province has been leading to critical events due to the regime’s revenge policy despite reconciliation deals.
Local activists say the frustration is mounting due to the regime’s security policies of arbitrary arrest and isolating the towns with military barriers.
Horan (Daraa) Free Rally reported that the State Security Branch in Daraa had issued new wanted.
The name list contains 70 people, most of them reached a settlement after the regime forces’ controlled the southern province in July 2018 , including dissident Captain Abdul Hakim Eid, a former leader of the Youth of Sunna forces, and who joined the ranks of Russian Fifth Corps, now located in Salma in coastal Latakia province.
He explained that, "among the names on the wanted lists, pharmacist Nejdet Hamdi Zaouqi, who died after artillery bombardment of regime forces on the city of Jasim on July 31, 2016. He was previously arrested sometime during the revolution, and his brother, a doctor, died under torture in the basements of the regime."
The League said that, "the second deadline for the retired from the mandatory and reserve services and dissidents from Assad’s army in Daraa district is drawing near, in a prevailing state of anxiety and tension in the region.
It also declared that "the elements of the two checkpoints in Daraa are making young people commit to a review of recruitment division within a maximum period of 7 days, as they inform the passers that any delay beyond the specified period will be considered a fugitive from the army service.”
On the other hand, the Italian agency, Aki, published a report on the situation in Daraa expecting an explosion because of Assad’s policies.
The agency said that "Russia has reduced its military presence in the city and its countryside, because the general atmosphere suggests the possibility of an upheaval in security and military situations again, noting that the ”deteriorating economic conditions in the district may contribute to the return of tensions in the region.
Based on informed sources, it stated that the Russian military presence is "almost non-existent," asserting that, "it is confined to the barriers and some points across the countryside, hardly seen." Adding that, "the two parties, the opposition and the regime, are in a state of calm and anticipation, each party does not trust the other to the fullest. There are no mutual checkpoints, each side sitting in its position, as if everyone is on alert and ready to return to confrontations and combat operations, as before.”
The sources stressed the ability of the Syrian opposition to "regain its strength if tensions return," explaining that the opposition "handed over in the ‘reconciliation’ agreement, sponsored by Russia, heavy weapons only, while keeping medium and light weapons, which gives them the ability to rise again in cases of emergency”.
The agency pointed out that Daraa witnessed unrest and unexpected demonstrations after the regime restored the statue of Hafez al-Assad, in symbolic reference to re-erect the statue that was destroyed by demonstrators in March 2011 at the beginning of the uprising, which turned into a large-scale armed clash.”
The agency said that, "the people of the city suffer from difficulties of living and inflation, while the Jordanians dragged to the majority of the few crops and agricultural products produced by the people of the district."
Zaman Al Wasl
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