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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2erkr1n15o
Syrian security forces 'oversaw' armed civilians who killed
Alawites, accused man says
One of the men accused of taking part in a wave of
sectarian violence against Syria's Alawite minority
two months ago has told the BBC that he and other
armed civilians who travelled to the area were
advised and monitored by government forces there.
Abu Khalid said he had travelled as a civilian fighter
to the Mediterranean coastal village of Sanobar on 7
March, to help battle former regime insurgents.
"The General Security department told us not to harm
civilians, but only to shoot at insurgents who shot
at us," he told me.
"There were eight men with me, but it was a large group,
and the General Security department was overseeing things
so that no-one would vandalise the village or harm
the residents."
He later filmed himself shooting dead a 64-year-old
village resident, Mahmoud Yusef Mohammed, at the
entrance to his house.
. . .
Look ... Assad was BAD, but he was also TYPICAL.
The new bosses are just as bad as the old bosses.
It's simply a slight change in WHICH little ethnics
are genociding WHICH.
There have been hideous purges in that part of
the world dating back thousands of years.
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