No place for Shabiha corpses in Tartus graveyards

 No place for Shabiha corpses in Tartus graveyards, even if they were killed defending the Assad regime as their number has increased sharply in recent says as a result of violent fights between the FSA and pro-Assad militias.

Some fanatics in the coastal city, Tartus, 350 km north west Damascus, have refused to bury the killed militants, who are not originally from the city, despite their birth certificates and their growing-up in the city. Most of the killed people belong to the National Defense Army, source said to Zaman Alwasl.

''Shabiha corpses are no longer welcome in Tartus province,  as the city council and some community groups rejected burring them in the city graveyards claiming they are not originally from the city despite they were born and lived in the city,'' the source reported.  

 Activists told a story about militant was killed in Aleppo but the officials in Tartus had refused to bury him because he was originally from Homs. Moreover, some gunmen prevented his parents from entering the graveyard.

On the other hand, the regime Army casualties have an official funeral ceremony with salute by 11 cannon shots.

The National Defense Army

The National Defense Army has been formed a year ago by orders from Bashar Al-Asad, it is a military force parallel to the regular army in Syria and composed from civilians who voluntarily joined the army. They are trained to be able to fight guerrilla war on ground against opposition fighters.

The army consists of Community Committees that have evolved with the progress of recent violence events in Syria to protect neighborhoods.

Men and women can join this army and it is expected to have 10 thousand fighters and all of them will have monthly salaries with particular uniforms.

According to VDC there are 66952 documented deaths in Syria till now, 50951 civilians (76%) and 16001 (24%) non civilian that include people who were killed during fighting either from the Regime forces or the opposition, 301 (0.4 %) of the death are from Tartus.

More than 93,000 people have been killed since the Syria crisis started in March 2011, according to the United Nations, as largely peaceful protests against Assad's rule. It escalated into a civil war after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

Editing by Yusra abo Hamed and Mohamed Hamdan