By George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad
A leaked official document issued by the ministry of interior acknowledged the incident where regime forces, specifically the Fourth Division, and Republican Guard, have looted two apartments affiliated to the police housing (AR: Masaken al-Shorta) neighborhood in Mouadamiya, Damascus suburb.
Among many official documents obtained by Zaman Alwasl to be published, this one was addressed to the minister of interior to inform him about “the apartments subject” that belong to two employees in the ministry of interior, and were broken into by Syrian army forces.
The document which is dated June 2013 No (4581), revealed that the first apartment belonged to First-Lieutenant Samer Issa from Damascus police, and the second is owned by Engineer Mona Masri, an employee in the ministry of interior, and that they met Ali Hammoud from the Forth Division accompanied by two officers from the Interior, and when they entered their apartments, found some forces from the fourth division in one of the two apartments, and Republic Guards in the other.
The document quoted the words of “Ali Hammoud “an officer in the Fourth Division, who justified seizing the two apartments for “security reasons”, and because the two apartments were empty.
First Lieutenant Samer Issa, said that he was injured in a bombing that targeted Barzah department where he works, then got a convalescence leave that he spent in the city of Latakia , and was not aware of the entry of those soldiers to his apartment .
For her part, Engineer. Mona Masri said that her apartment is located along the main road, which is constantly exposed to fire from Mouadamiya side; and that forced her to leave the apartment, noting that she was surprised to find these soldiers in her apartment, and have no idea of their existence.
The document mentioned that Masri noticed that some of her house items were lost, and went to Mouadamiya police station and filed a police report.
Remarkably, the document submitted to the Minister of Interior did not indicate at all to the need to question the Department of Defense or the direct presidents of those forces, but only assigned the director of the “housing branch” to do a follow up to the subject, and inform the ministry when the two apartments had been looted by the Fourth Division, and Republican Guard’s forces.
The 4th Armoured Division, an elite formation of the Syrian Army which is mainly drawn from members of the same Alawite group as the Assad family. About 80 percent of the division's soldiers and officers are Alawites, and their authoritative power proved to be superior to other army members and units equivalent to them.
The 4th division and the Republican Guard, are under a particular leadership of officers, whose sectarian affiliation is well known and blindly loyal to the regime of Bashar al-Assad .
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