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I fear for my life and the lives of my two children,
What happened from three months ago until today, equals what the Assads did to us in five decades. The Assads were criminals, and these (new rulers) are also criminals,
It was the battle for liberation. Now it’s a battle for purification (of Syria),
a narrator accompanying the armed convoys says To the Alawites, we’re coming to slaughter you and your fathers,
a man in military fatigues said in what sounded like an Egyptian accent in one of the videos filmed at night The Assad loyalists won’t be in the villages they attacked, these (armed men) were killing regular people in those villages,
These are the Alawite pigs,
a voice is heard saying before shooting an apparently lifeless body on open ground in another video People were fleeing, those who couldn’t were killed,
Bashir, another resident of Latakia, told CNN Are you still not dead? You’re still not dead,
he says before shooting him again Armed men were moving from house to house attacking people as a form of entertainment… They declared jihad on us from all over Syria,
said one resident of the city of Latakia, who chose to remain anonymous through concern for the safety of their family still in the city I was constantly in touch with my family; they told me there are gunfire sounds,
My 70-year-old uncle, a history professor, and his 60-year-old wife were killed in cold blood at home,
If I had been five minutes late, I would have been killed.
He managed to escape with his wife and two children to a Sunni neighbourhood, but said There are reports of summary executions on a sectarian basis by unidentified perpetrators, by members of the caretaker authorities' security forces, as well as by elements associated with the former government.
We have nothing to eat and we do not dare go out,
he said on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety It was very very bad. Bodies were on the streets,
as he was fleeing, ... Sheha said, speaking by phone from nearly 12 miles away from the city The United States condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent days. The United States stands with Syria's religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families, ... Syria's interim authorities must hold the perpetrators of these massacres against Syria's minority communities accountable."
Rubio said in the statement, adding There are six of us in the house, with my parents and my brothers. There’s been no electricity for four days, no water. We have nothing to eat and we do not dare go out,
he said on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety We turned off the lights and hid. When we were able to flee our neighbourhood of Al Qusour, we found the roads full of corpses,
Kamel, a 35-year-old mother, told AFP There are houses with four or five dead bodies in them,
More than 50 people from among my family and friends have been killed,
