Syrian leader Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammad al-Julani; photo: Shahin Hazany
Just 10 days after the outbreak of massive ethnic cleansing against Alawites and Christians in Syria, the EU has pledged €2.5 million to Syria, welcoming Syrian “Foreign Minister” Hassan al-Shaibani to Brussels as more details emerged on the massacres of Christians and Alawites.
“The European Union is increasing its pledge for Syrians in the country and in the region to almost 2.5 billion euros for 2025 and 2026,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday in Brussels.
Greek MEP Nikolas Farantouris, a member of the Security and Defense Committee of the European Parliament, was in Syria during the outbreak, on March 8-9 and stated:
“Reliable data indicate 7,000 massacres of Christians and Alawites and unprecedented atrocities against civilians. Christian and other communities with a presence in these parts for over a thousand years are at risk of extinction. The new Islamic regime is leading Syria into an Islamic state and is claiming that it cannot control the paramilitaries and their affiliated gangs who attack innocent civilians. I call on the Greek Government and the entire political world of the country, the European Institutions and the governments of the Member States, to act NOW. Neither Greece nor the EU can continue to show tolerance and limit themselves to ceremonial visits and courtesies with the Islamic regime for investments and ‘business’ while thousands of civilians are being massacred under its tolerance if not its guidance.”
European Conservative reported on the massacres against Christians in Syria:
In the “Valley of the Christians,” Marwan Shahda, chief of the Christian village Mazraa, was found slaughtered with a machete on March 8th. On March 11th, a Christian man, Elias Michel Asaad, was found executed with a shot to the head after being kidnapped two days prior in the city of Homs. On March 13th, Johnny Al-Sayegh, a Greek Christian from the village of Burj Balamana in Tratous, was shot to death. He was riding his motorcycle with his fiancée on the Baniyas Road. News regarding the murders of Syrian Christians by Islamists is regularly posted on social media monitoring the ongoing violence in the country.
A Levantine Christian source told Uzay Bulut of European Conservative: “Right now the Alawites and Christians in Syria are deathly afraid of speaking to the press.”
Numerous videos have surfaced on social media showing HTS terrorists expressing genocidal intent towards the Alawite community, European Conservative reports. A senior HTS regime commander filmed himself as he called for the whipping of all Alawites, including children. “Do not leave alive any Alawite, male or female,” he said.
Many social media videos clearly demonstrate the perpetrators are violently targeting their victims over their religion, European Conservative wrote. In addition, mosques under al-Sharaa’s control have reportedly made announcements such as “Allahu Akbar, onwards to Jihad.”
Even CNN had to report on the massacres, analyzing interviews with survivors, satellite imagery, and verified footage from the ground to “shed light on the scale of the carnage” in the town of Sanobar, “where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, looting, arson, and sectarian slurs, and bodies were piled up in two mass graves.”
CNN tallied at least 84 bodies in videos geolocated to Sanobar, with a population of several thousand. “Locals said they counted over 200 dead – the vast majority of whom were male. The eyewitnesses spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.”
CNN posted a map of the massacres based on reporting by the Qatar-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, which is known to be close to the Islamist regime. It was not clear why CNN used regime sources or how reliable they are.
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militia, which now rules Syria, was added to the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) in 2018 as an alias for the Islamic State offshoot al Nusrah Front (ANF). In 2013, the State Department designated HTS’s current leader, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, aka Abu Muhammad al-Julani, as a “specially designated global terrorist.”
Al-Julani joined Al-Qaida in Iraq in 2003 and was assigned by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to represent the Islamic State’s interests in Syria during the height of the Syrian civil war 2013, as Jason M. Blazakis wrote on Lawfare.
In February, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz called al-Julani “a jihadist terrorist from the Al-Qaeda school, committing atrocities against the Alawite civilian population.”
The Biden administration removed a $10 million reward on al-Julani’s head after US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf met with him in Damascus on December 20.
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