Within the continuous recruitment in the “reconciliation” areas, the regime forces recruit about 50000 in their ranks in less than 5 months, most of them from the Syrian south
Between recruitment for “mandatory conscription due date” and recruiting for earnings the regime forces continue to increase their members, compensating those discharged from compulsory service in the previous months. The process of increasing number of their members is the result of the continued recruitment of civilians from within the areas that have been controlled by the regime forces recently, either through military operations or through “reconciliations and settlements”, reached after an agreement between the regime and representatives of the areas in which “reconciliations” were carried out, and according to which tens of thousands of citizens have been displaced towards the Syrian north. Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime forces were able to add tens of thousands of young people from Daraa and Quneitra provinces, where the regime forces to complete and end their military service in addition to those who have been recruited in order to “settle their situation” of the remained civilians and fighters who reached more than 30000 people, the largest part of them are of the former fighters in the ranks of the factions operating in the Syrian south, where the part of them who refused the agreement was departed to the Syrian north, while the other section stayed in the provinces of Quneitra and Daraa.
And with the continuation of recruiting more people, it rose to more than 49500, the number of people recruited since the beginning of April 2018 from the capital Damascus and Rif Dimashq, within the areas which witnessed deals of demographic change through displacing those who refused the agreement which took place between the factions and representatives of the area and between the regime, with full Russian guarantees, in the south of the capital Damascus, and the cities and towns of Eastern Ghouta, the southern Rif Dimashq, Eastern al-Qalamoun, Zabadani, Wadi Barada, Madaya, the west of Rif Dimashq and al-Tal area in Rif Dimashq, and the intersected sources of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that the recruitment process had been ordered by the Russian Forces, while fears rise among officers and groups within the regime forces from the Russian forces’ goal of displacement in gaining the side of the remained population within these areas and get closer to them, to make these forces –who are formed from people of the displaced areas– forces loyal to the Russians.
The continuous recruitment process by the regime forces for the 5th consecutive month; followed regime forces’ decision to demobilize the Batch 102nd of its forces and carrying out their decision, in addition to regime’s quest for issuing a resolution to dissolve the forces of its allies that belong to it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on 26th of May 2018 that the number of the Batch 102 conscripts in the regime forces, who have been kept, and who will be demobilized, reached about 15000 conscripts, of who are expected to be demobilized from the compulsory military service in the ranks of the regime forces, in early June 2018, and the reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that tens of thousands of the member of this Batch of who were recruited in the conscription service of the regime forces in 2010, were killed and injured, while thousands others dissent from them, during the Syrian revolution, and most of them joined the ranks of the rebel and Islamic factions in the Syrian Opposition, and the Syrian Observatory published at that time that the 102nd batch of those who were recruited in the conscription service of the regime forces in 2010, where they were supposed to be released from service back in early 2012, but the regime forces deliberately kept them on duty for about 6 years of service in addition to their official service time in the army of the regime, using them in the clashes and military operations carried out in the Syrian territory, by which the regime forces managed to regain control of tens of thousands of square kilometers, after previous losing to the opposition and Islamic factions and the “Islamic State” organization.