Hundreds died in contractions and violence in Syria

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria after clashes between the non -governmental forces who grew into sectaries, causing an angry condemnation of new leaders from the United States.

Many of these targeted were the Alavites, the members of the minority sect, to which the former president Bashar al-Assad It also relates to the upper ranks of the former regime security forces.

The violence became the biggest threat to the country’s stability because Assad was rejected in December, and the Ministry of Defense stated that the clashes continued in the west coast on Sunday morning.

While the estimates ranged, the war controls the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reports that more than 1000 people were killed on Sunday, most of them civilians. Financial Times could not check the numbers on your own.

US Secretary of State Mark Rubio said Washington “condemns radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihad who killed people in Western Syria” and stood with minorities in the country.

“The intermediate authorities of Syria should attract the perpetrators of these masses against the difficult communities of Syria,” Rubio said.

The United States appoints Islamist Chargé President Ahmed al-Sharaa Hayat Tahrira al-Al-Shama, a former al-Qaeda branch that dumped Assad as a terrorist person.

Sharaa, who declined to connect with al-Qaeda ten years ago and promised to defend the minorities and create an inclusive administration, called for peace on Sunday.

Speaking in the Mosque in Damascus, Sharaa said that it had happened among the “expected problems” and called for coexistence. “We can live together in this country, God is ready,” said Sharaa, who cooperates with the US and other Western governments to help sanctions.

The upheaval began on Thursday after armed groups, faithful Assad, confronted with government security forces and called for “uprising” in Latakia, coastal province and former Assad Support.

According to residents and rights who came to intercourse and sectarian murders, as forces committed by the Provisional Government, they arrived from outside the coastal territory to defeat the pro-Assad troops.

Many former insurgent factions that are now responsible for security within the new temporary administration, which dissolved Assad’s army, accuse the Alavites, as well as the former regime for atrocities that took place during more than 13-year civil war in Syria.

The residents of Alavita said FT was leaning in their homes, killed relatives, and neighbors killed or escaped by fear of further attacks.

Anas Haidar, translator Alavita from Bania, south of Latakia, said he learned from Aunt that on Friday, armed factions took their 69-year-old uncle on the roof of his apartment building and punished him with other people living in the building.

“We thought that the sounds we heard were shot in the air or celebrations, but not: all these shots were in the people,” he said, adding that his uncle was a longtime opponent of Assad’s regime.

On Saturday, when Gaidar was preparing to escape, he called from another aunt, asking him to come to help his son who bleeding after being shot on the roof and then died. Gaidar left the neighborhood in the car of a Sunni friend who shelter him and other families overnight.

The escalation creates one of the most serious threats so far the legitimacy of the transitional government of Syria.

He also emphasizes the scale of the problem he faces in the unification and management of the nation, where many sets live and overcome weapons and armed factions, including unemployed former Assad’s forces.

About during the initial attacks, the group calling for itself to the military council for the liberation of Syria made a statement that promised to knock down the government. The group is headed by the former commander of the fourth Army Assad’s army, once headed by Bashar Maher’s brother.

In the absence of uniform forces of the Sharaa national security, the Patchwork of Armed Opposition Groups under the umbrella of the Ministry of Defense earlier this year, but coordination, training and ideology vary greatly.

Mohammad Salah Shalati, Sunni Sheikh of Latakia, said there was a broad disappointment about the perception of the lack of accountability for those who worked in the former mode.

“We said the government,” One or that person worked against us for the regime. “We know who they are, but they ask for evidence,” he said. “The new government orders us to be patient. But the Sunni was oppressed for 60 years.. After March 6, people no longer want forgiveness – they want to bring everyone accountable.”

The residents of the coastal areas that made the FT emphasized the difference between the behavior of what they called extremist factions, and more disciplined, the internal ministry, related to the general security forces, but said the new authorities should keep everyone in line.

The factions “are not illegal gangs. Technically it is a law, the military,” said Haidar. “These were groups that were allegedly at a meeting with Ahmed al -Sharaa and agreed to become a participant of the Ministry of Defense.”