The scale of assassinations and arrests in southern Daraa province has hiked since December amid ongoing security chaos that has increased since the Russian-brokered settlement between the Syrian regime and opposition factions in July 2018.
A report by the Ahrar Horan Group, local monitoring group, recorded the deaths of 38 people, including two children, in Daraa and five in Quneitra province.
The report counted the deaths of 7 people under torture in the regime’s detention centres, 6 of whom were arrested after a settlement, including three former regime defectors, one child killed as a result of a cluster bomb from the remnants of war, and another child who was shot dead after unidentified gunmen targeted his father, while one person was shot dead by regime forces while pursuing him, and a person from outside the province was found shot dead in the head area.
The report confirmed the killing of 17 regime forces, as well as two officers, one lieutenant, one captain, two first-time assistant officers, seven regime soldiers in separate attacks in Daraa, while an officer and four regime soldiers were killed in Quneitra province, in addition to an army lieutenant originally Daraa who was killed outside the province.
In regard to the assassinations toll in the province, the monitoring group has documented 15 assassinations and attempted assassinations that killed 15 people and injured 3 others.
According to the report, three civilians died as a result of the assassinations, including two accused of working for the regime's security services, while the office recorded the killing of 11 leaders and former members of opposition factions, including one commander and three members who did not participate in regime military formations after the province entered the "settlement agreement", in addition to documenting the death of a former member of the
Islamic State (Daesh).
In December, the group said the regime security had arrested 26 people in Daraa. At least17 of them were released during the same month.
The actual numbers of detainees in the province are higher than the number documented in the report, as a number of families of detainees in Daraa have refrained from providing information about their children due to security concerns due to security concerns, where the vetting of detainees is carried out on an ongoing basis, according to lawyer Assem al-Zu’abi, director of the Office for documenting violations at The Ahrar Horan Rally.
Damascus has failed in southern Syria as its notorious security services continue arrests campaigns and keep tracking former rebel fighters who laid down their weapons, seeking to start a new post-war life.
Feeling insecure, has pushed dozen of former rebels to carry weapons again, according to analysts.
In March 2019, rare clashes erupted in the western countryside of Daraa but the regime's massive power had smashed the rebellion when dozens of tanks were stationed in the town of Sanamayn.
Russia, the de-facto ruler of Syria, tried to engulf the tension by freeing detainees and providing promises that most of have not come true until now, activists say.
More than 140,000 regime troops have been killed in nine years but opposition figures say the number is more.
In its turn, the regime bombing has killed about 400,000 people according to the UN and Britain-based monitoring groups. Also opposition rights groups say the number is more.
Zaman Al Wasl
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