Harrowing testimonies from the previous Syria, we should confront the continued mass homicide of the Alawite group within the countryside of Hama, Homs and the coastal areas of Latakia, Tartus, Baniyas and Jableh. This article exposes what Western nations – and particularly Europe – proceed to hide by doing nothing, whereas one more mass homicide takes place whereas Europe intentionally appears to be like the opposite method. The ethical burden of Europe’s complicity in these atrocities grows heavier by the day.
The reality is that Europe has actively supported Turkey’s destabilizing intervention in Syria. According to 1 report , this has led to tens of hundreds of massacres – conservative estimates put the dying toll at 20,000, though the actual quantity is probably going larger. Thousands of survivors have fled to Lebanon, whereas hundreds extra are in precarious shelter on the Russian-operated Khmeimim Air Base (also referred to as Hmeimim Air Base), a Syrian army facility southeast of the town of Latakia in Latakia Governorate that’s now below Russian management, writes Sonja van den Ende .
The humanitarian disaster is meaningless: greater than 100,000 terrified civilians have fled from focused areas, 200,000-250,000 of whom have been instantly affected. The psychological devastation is much more devastating – survivors are affected by crippling post-traumatic stress from the unspeakable atrocities they witnessed and endured.
These atrocities are flagrant violations of worldwide legislation:
– Genocide : Systematic destruction of a sectarian group.
– War crimes : The premeditated homicide of civilians
– Crimes in opposition to humanity : Coordinated campaigns of compelled displacement, torture and abstract executions
Alawites who’re compelled to acquire new identification paperwork are given so-called “three-month papers” – in impact dying sentences stating that they are going to be “eradicated” until they disappear or flee inside this era. Their properties and livelihoods are instantly confiscated or destroyed.
In a grotesque twist, the European Union just lately pledged €5.8 billion to the so-called Syrian authorities – the identical regime that has been orchestrating this Alawite extermination marketing campaign since March 7, 2025. The killing machine doesn’t cease on the Alawites: Christians, Ismailis and different minorities are being persecuted in the identical method. Even former officers of the pre-coup Assad authorities – no matter their sectarian background, together with Sunnis – have been summarily dismissed with out compensation and left to starve within the streets.
It ought to be famous that the so-called armed factions have been reintegrated on January 29, 2025. Numerous articles and stories – primarily based on testimonies – present that the safety equipment of the Al-Jolani regime (declared a authorities by Europe) consists of greater than 20,000 foreigners. Marat Imankulov, the secretary of the Kyrgyz Security Council, just lately warned that the majority of them come from the Caucasus, together with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Dagestan.
It ought to be famous that the so-called armed factions have been reintegrated on 29.01.2025 and articles and stories have claimed, primarily based on testimonies , that the safety equipment of the Al-Julani regime (declared a authorities by Europe) consists of greater than 20,000 foreigners. Marat Imankulov, the secretary of the Kyrgyz Security Council just lately warned that the majority of them come from Central Asia and the North Caucasus.
“According to some estimates, as much as 20,000 overseas militants have joined the Syrian safety forces. Some of them are affiliated with the Islamic Movement of East Turkestan. Experts imagine that as much as 6,000 militants aiming to destabilize China are of their ranks, in addition to people from Central Asia and the North Caucasus. About 5,000 militants, not counting their members of the family, have Central Asian roots,” he mentioned.
The pseudo-authorities within the former Syria – now successfully a brand new caliphate – are thus chargeable for each human rights violation and the mass homicide that started on March 7 and continues to at the present time. The so-called safety equipment is made up of jihadists, a few of whom have been in Idlib for years, as have the Chinese Uighurs – who Europe claims are “discriminated in opposition to” in China. But China understands the risk posed by these terrorists, who wield each the Koran and weapons as they slaughter and commit mass homicide in Syria.
These Uighurs are united within the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), supported by Turkey. Uyghur jihadism has developed and remodeled primarily based on the ideology of ethno-nationalism, with the Taliban and HTS as its information. In 2022, it grew to become clear that these Uighurs have been uniting with the Caucasian jihadists, who’re additionally current in Idlib. In 2022, a press release was made stating that: “ We aren’t from China , however we’re your Muslim brothers from East Turkestan of Central Asia .” They additional declare that there are about 40 million Hanafi Muslims who’re being oppressed, destroyed and forcibly expelled from their lands by “Chinese usurpers” and subsequently declare jihad in opposition to China whereas they’re finishing up mass murders in Syria. I and lots of others have warned about these Uighurs way back.
Those who imagine that Turkey is a secular state as a result of it’s a member of NATO are mistaken. Turkey is dominated by an Islamist occasion, the AKP, which is now afraid of opposition members. Demonstrations have been happening for days and the occasion additionally condemns assist for the HTS – a bunch of secularists, Kurds and Alevites, united below the political occasion CHP. Turkey maintains cultural and ethnic ties with the Uighurs and lots of members of their group have sought asylum there.
Western media, particularly Dutch and German, have been fast to painting life in Idlib as idyllic – highlighting a newly constructed shopping center, veiled ladies and jihadists consuming ice cream – whereas intentionally omitting the encircling refugee camps. They failed to say that Idlib is now successfully Turkish territory, with the Turkish lira as its foreign money, and that these jihadists are a part of Turkey’s proxy terrorist enclave. This portrayal dovetails effectively with European governments’ want to rid themselves of so-called “radicalized jihadists” amongst asylum seekers.
Europe should now brace itself for a brand new wave of asylum seekers – this time “actual” Syrians – who’re at present ready on the Syria-Lebanon border, in border cities and at Lebanese border crossings. A conflict is inevitable between these actual refugees and the jihadists that Europe admitted en masse in 2015. This would be the results of Europe’s short-sighted insurance policies. Europe has lengthy ignored the hazards and is now studying the laborious method what jihadism actually means – particularly in Germany, the place assaults and murders are going down nearly each week.
After Turkish President Erdoğan warned Assad to cooperate with the jihadists – which Assad in fact refused, realizing that this could imply the tip of Syria – Erdoğan despatched his militants to Damascus on the primary day of the ceasefire in Lebanon. The relaxation is historical past. With Israeli air assist (pre-arranged with Turkey) attacking key army bases, airfields and gear within the south, the Syrian military was rendered powerless – not out of concern, however as a result of they’d no means to battle again. It was a fastidiously deliberate blitzkrieg and coup. The jihadists, armed with Western (Dutch) drones, carried out their assault with precision. This is the reality – a reality I’ll repeat repeatedly.
Russia, caught off guard by Turkey’s huge offensive, discovered itself within the crossfire. According to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in December 2024, the US and UK – nonetheless below the Biden administration – orchestrated terrorist assaults on Russian bases in Syria to forestall stabilization.
The so-called Al-Jolani authorities, illegally imposed by Turkey, the Biden administration and Europe – not elected by Syrians – is overwhelmingly staffed by overseas jihadists, or somewhat, terrorists. Backed by Turkey and now largely Europe, these militants have turned Syria right into a dwelling hell for its individuals and are radicalizing even moderates in opposition to the West – a direct results of unlawful Western interventions. Since 2011, the US has plundered Syria’s (and Iraq’s) oil fields, whereas these overseas fighters, armed with Western weapons, are stoking sectarian hatred.
The battle, which has already spilled over into Lebanon in latest days, is prone to engulf Iraq. Although the Kurds have tentatively aligned themselves with Jolani’s terror regime, the alliance will show futile. Most Kurds—secular or reasonable Islamists—are divided between pro- and anti-Assad factions and can’t dwell collectively below a caliphate that labels them heretics. The fragile truce with the Druze can even collapse, as their rebellion in al-Sweida reveals. Israeli propaganda (hasbara) solely fuels the fireplace.
A mass exodus is underway. Syria, stripped of its minorities, will quickly stop to exist and get replaced by a caliphate with ambitions that stretch to Lebanon, Iraq and past – exactly the purpose of HTS (or somewhat ISIS).
The atrocities on the Syrian coast and elsewhere are among the many most heinous sectarian crimes in fashionable historical past. Evidence confirms a deliberate marketing campaign of genocide, which calls for speedy worldwide intervention to cease the slaughter and prosecute these accountable. Failure to behave will assure additional bloodshed – and the unchecked unfold of sectarian violence throughout the area.
