Regime’s intelligence raid Damascus suburbs and the Republican Guard pulls the “reconciliation” fighters towards their barracks
Rif Dimashq Province – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Qudsaya area in the northwestern suburbs of the capital Damascus, is witnessing almost daily raids and arrests by regime’s intelligences, where they raid shops, houses, and industrial workshops searching for wanted people for the reserve service and the conscription service, the trusted sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that these raids by the intelligence of the regime; come in the light of decreasing the work of the People’s committees, which belong to the Republican Guard or the NDF, and include former members of the opposition factions who chose “settlement” instead of going out towards the Syrian north, also credible sources told the Syrian Observatory that the command of the 101st Brigade of the Republican Guard, began a process of withdrawing members of the local committees towards the military barracks, despite the promises made to them that they will remain in the area and will not be sent on missions outside the Qudsaya area, while they were carrying out the reconciliation, and the Syrian Observatory received information earlier that the Brigade 101 issued a decision to dissolve all the militias within the Qudsaya area and its surroundings, and to include “all the reconciliation fighters”, to the mentioned Brigade, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored on the 1st of October 2018 that the security forces were carrying lists of about 100 names of young men wanted for conscription, and the Syrian Observatory learned that the security forces arrested 18 youths and took them to the conscription service, also the Observatory’s local sources confirmed that the regime forces tightened the security measures at the entrances of Qudsaya areas, and requested official papers concerning the postponement of conscription service for students travelling on the checkpoints.
Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that this operation is the largest in Qudsaya area since the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them managed to control it, after the displacement of its fighters and civilians who rejected the agreement between representatives of the area and regime’s authorities, and were transported aboard tens of buses from Qudsaya and al-Hamah areas to Idlib Province and the Syrian north in October 2016.
The Syrian Observatory published previously that t 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.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that it rose to about 55000, the number of people who have been 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.