The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Via “No interference” cards in central Syria, Russian forces impose protection on factions of the “reconciliation ” and prevent the regime forces from arresting them warning them of bypassing it

Homs Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from intersected sources that the Russian police forces -who are deployed in the northern countryside of al-Homs- have issued security cards to former leaders of Jaysh al-Tawhid Faction, which carried out “settlements and reconciliations”, where they were distributed security cards written in Arabic and Russian on about 50 former leaders and members of Jaysh al-Tawhid, where the photograph and name of each person were placed on the card on which written that it is forbidden to stop the cardholder or inspect his car and who violates that will be held accountable, also the card contains in its top the words “police forces of the Russian reconciliation center in the conflict areas the northern countryside of Homs”, and the issuance of these cards came to prevent the regime forces and their security branches from arresting fighters and former leaders. And in the same context, the regime forces continue arresting and raiding in areas of the “settlement and reconciliation” in the northern countryside of Homs, where they continue to pursuit former fighters of al-Tawhid Brigade who have carried out settlement and reconciliation, where the regime forces and its security branches arrested the commander of a Ma’rouq Battalion known as “Abu Hayyah” on the charge of “murdering one of the Alawite persons earlier,” it worth mentioning that Abu Hayyah is one of first of those who carried out “reconciliation and settlement” along with several members of his battalion, which was a part of al-Tawhid Brigade or Jaysh al-Tawhid in al-Houla and Talbiseh areas.

The Syrian Observatory published on the 17th of September 2018 that since last May 2018, the date of the displacement of more than 35000 civilians, fighters, and their families; the north of Homs and south of Hama are witnessing the excesses of the Syrian security forces and forces of the regime and the gunmen loyal to them in the cities, towns and villages of both countryside, these excesses of guarantees provided by the Russians to reach a displacement agreement that ends hostilities in both areas in central Syria, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the arrests of tens of ex-fighters who carried out a “settlement and reconciliation” with the regime, after refusing to leave on the displacement buses; which were transferred those who rejected the agreement towards the Syrian north, and the sources confirmed that the recent weeks have witnessed significant violations in north of Homs and south of Hama, where the regime forces occasionally break their vows with factions of both areas, by arresting former faction members in these areas, despite their settlement of their situations, and despite the transforming factions that used to fight the regime in the northern countryside of Homs, to forces of regime’s intelligence branches, and transferring their fighters to fronts of the eastern countryside of Homs, the northern countryside of Hama, and Deir Ezzor desert.

These continuous arrests by the regime forces against former fighters, were accompanied by arrests of civilians and coincided with thefts, looting, and stealing by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, where they looted jewelry and money  with no party to hold them accountable, as happened in many of the areas that were controlled by the regime forces on Syrian territory, whether by military operations or displacements and “reconciliation “, and what made the discontent of citizens increase is the concerns of the area’s residents from regime’s disapproval of the return of about 2500 employees who were fired during previous years of their work in the secretariats of the civil registry, courts, and colleges, also the concerns have increased after the regime filled these vacancies during the past years -after the dismissal of staff- with temporary staff of families of its members and casualties, while the dismissed staff members of the regime forces are afraid that the regime may make the temporary staff permanent and prevent them from returning to their jobs for which they have been denied, although the return of staff was one of the terms of the agreement reached between representatives of Homs and between the Russians and the regime.

The sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime has appointed 500 teachers of families of its casualties and families of its members and injured ones; in schools in the northern countryside of Homs and southern countryside of Hama, including tens of female teachers, and local sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory in the past weeks that the fears are increasing among those who chose to stay and not to go out on the displacement buses towards Afrin area and Idlib Province, as the regime and its forces are increasingly interfering in these areas, of which Russia had given prior guarantees that the regime forces will not enter it, but the successive excesses of Russian guarantees has provoked fear of arresting civilians, defected people, or ex-fighters, who chose the “settlement and reconciliation” with the regime,  and what increased the tension is people’s fear -in the areas where the displacement took place in the northern countryside of Homs and southern countryside of Hama- from arresting their young men by the regime forces, for those who are within the required age and taking them to conscription.

The Syrian Observatory published in May 2018 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the departure of buses of those which entered al-Sama’lil Crossing in the northern countryside of Homs a few hours ago, where it rose to 35000, the number of people displaced of fighters and civilians from the southern countryside of Hama and the northern countryside of Homs, they were transferred on board of 9 batches to Idlib province, Afrin area and the northeastern countryside of Aleppo.