After recruiting more than 55000 members in its forces in recent months, the regime forces and intelligence send warnings to young people of the Eastern Ghouta to start enrolling in the “conscription service”

Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources that the Syrian regime’s security has sent recently a warning through elders and dignitaries of the “reconciliation and settlement” to youths of the Eastern Ghouta who have carried out “reconciliation and settlement” to join the compulsory service of the new recruits, those who passed their recruitment day, and people defected of the regime forces, after the six months period is almost finished, which was provided by the Russians as a guarantee to those who have decided to stay, and the security services have threatened to start an arrest operation and forcefully withdrawing those who pass their conscription date, the sources added that hundreds of youths have been joining the compulsory service since days, and these warnings come despite the pressures, violations, and abuses carried out by the regime in front of the Russian Forces, who did not move to show commitment to the guarantees they provided for the agreement of the Eastern Ghouta and the people who remained in it and accepted the Russian conditions of settlement, while the citizens fear more violations when the Russian guarantee period expires.

Thus, 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.

The continuous recruitment process by the regime forces 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.