As losses mount, rage raises amid Assad's loyalists in Hama province

Translation by Yusra Ahmed

(Zaman Alwasl)- It seems that protesting against Bashar al-Assad has begun to be intensified in the Alawite villages more than ever before especially after increasing in the amount of their lost of fighters and Shabiha.

this time, protesting came from Western Countryside of Hama, particularly from the area of Mesiaf, at the top of that anger was the act the mayor of Mesiaf, when he cursed Bashar al-Assad in the presence of a group of people, especially after the numbers of killed people had increased, especially Alawite - Haidari, while still al-Kalbiya tribe has special treatment because it is al-Assad’s tribe.

In a relevant context, news moved around about many Alawite prominent figures from Hama’s Western Countryside, left Syria in an attempt to show the span of crimes Alawite people suffer from Assad’s regime.`

More than 170,000 people have been killed in Syria since the beginning of its conflict in March 2011, according to the Observatory.