Emergency committee to monitor violations and refer those involved to military court

The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday the formation of an emergency committee to monitor violations in the coastal region, in coordination with the General Security Department, noting that the discovered violations will be referred to the military court.

According to the state-run news agency quoted a military source as saying: "After regaining control over most of the areas where the remnants of the defunct regime spread corruption and crime, it was decided to close the roads leading to the coastal region, in order to control violations, prevent violations, and gradually restore stability to the region."

The source also explained that the ministry had previously formed an emergency committee, which was tasked with monitoring violations and referring violators to the military court, especially those who did not adhere to the command's instructions during the recent military and security operations.

 

Syrian security sources said at least two hundred of their members were killed in the clashes with former army personnel owing allegiance to al-Assad after coordinated attacks and ambushes on their forces that were waged on Thursday.

The attacks spiraled into revenge killings when thousands of armed supporters of Syria’s new leaders from across the country descended to the coastal areas to support beleaguered forces of the new administration

The authorities blamed summary executions of dozens of youths and deadly raids on homes in villages and towns inhabited by Syria’s once ruling minority on unruly armed militias who came to help the security forces and have long blamed al-Assad’s supporters for past crimes.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, said on Saturday the two days of fighting in the Mediterranean coastal region amounted to some of the worst violence for years in a 13-year-old civil conflict.

Clashes continued overnight in several towns where armed groups fired on security forces and ambushed cars on highways leading to main towns in the coastal area, a Syrian security source told Reuters on Sunday.

With Reuters