Какво да знаем за малцинствата в Сирия и сектантското насилие
Бунтовниците, които смъкнаха сирийския деспот Башар ал Асад през декември, се заклеха да обединят страната си. But persistent outbreaks of sectarian violence have stoked fears among Syria’s many minority groups that the country’s new government, which mostly belongs to the Sunni Arab majority, will not or cannot protect them from extremist groups in Syria.
Dozens of people were killed in late April when Islamist fighters attacked neighborhoods around Damascus, the capital, which са дом на мнозина в малцинството на Druse в страната. On Wednesday, Israel launched airstrikes and threatened to strike Syrian government forces in defense of the Druse.
The attacks came two months after thousands of extremist fighters killed around 1,600 people mostly from the country’s Alawite minority on the Syrian coast, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war-monitoring group based in...
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