The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Regime’s authorities arrest a former leader of an opposition rebel division and take him to an unknown destination after he carried out a “reconciliation” with the regime earlier

Daraa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory monitored regime’s security services arresting a former leader of the 46 Division who carried out “reconciliation and settlement” within Daraa Province, where he was arrested for reasons -that still unknown- from his home in Qita area in Daraa countryside, at a time where the Russian police issued “no interference” cards to faction leaders and members in the northern countryside of Homs, where the Syrian Observatory published on the 20th of September 2018 that 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 for Human Rights published also that areas which have witnessed “reconciliation and settlements” with the regime forces in the Eastern Ghouta, Eastern Qalamoun, Daraa, and others, are still witnessing the continuation of the security operations of raids and arrests by regime’s security forces on various pretexts despite the “settlements” in these areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights continues to monitor these operations, which take place almost daily in the shadow of a media blackout of it and of the suffering of the remaining residents in the “reconciliation” areas mentioned above, where Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta is witnessing an alert situation by the regime forces and its security branches where the 6 months are almost expired, which is the period of time provided by the Russians as a guarantee to those who decided to stay and to make “reconciliation and settlements” to join the compulsory service for the new recruits, those how passed their conscripting date, and those who defected from the regime forces, where Douma is witnessing an alert of the Syrian regime’s military police and state security branch, looking for wanted people in conjunction with carrying out raid operations since yesterday, Thursday, also the Syrian Observatory learned that the security branches have established lists in names of people wanted for the mandatory service to join the security points in the Eastern Ghouta in a maximum of 7 days, while the regime forces arrested more than 20 persons of al-Dumayr, who are former fighters of the factions who carried out “settlements” in the area, and they were taken to an unknown destination.