(Zaman Al Wasl)-A local monitoring group in southern Daraa province said at least 37 civilians had been killed in March by regime forces and allied gunmen, amid high surge of assassination attempts tracking former rebel fighters.
The rally of Ahrar Horan said the regime bombardment had killed 17 people while unknown assailants had killed 14 more people. Also, 6 people were died of torture in the detention centers.
In 2019 alone, there were at least 305 assassination attempts recorded across Daraa province, according to the Daraa Martyrs Documentation office, a local monitoring group. Assassinations and disappearances have targeted all sides in Daraa’s messy post-conflict politics, according to Middle East Eye.
Rebel groups held on to some of their weapons, and local reconciliation committees were left with a degree of autonomy not seen in other areas of Syria. The result was a complex patchwork of localised truces.
Former rebels then started the first rumblings of a low-level insurgency, targeting Syrian army and intelligence officers, reconciliation negotiators and former rebels they deemed to be traitors for working alongside Damascus. Unrest followed soon after the actual conflict ended in Daraa, and has become more of a threat to local stability ever since, Middle East Eye reported.
The nine-year-old war has claimed the lives of 390,000 people and forced 13 million people from their homes, half of whom have left their shattered homeland.
Zaman Al Wasl
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