According to earlier agreement | Regime security services accomplish new reconciliations with suspected individuals in Kanaker
Rif Dimashq Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: reliable sources have informed SOHR that regime security services have accomplished the new reconciliation deals with the suspected individuals in Kanaker town in the west of Damascus.
According to SOHR sources, regime forces have evacuated two checkpoints in the town, according to a deal between the “Ministry of Interior Affairs” and Kanaker’s dignitaries on one hand, and security services on the other, which has stipulated that the police station is empowered to launch security campaigns and arrest the suspicious involved in criminal cases. Meanwhile, the security services maintained the security checkpoints at the town’s entrances and vowed not to harass the residents when traveling in or out of the town.
On October 8, reliable SOHR sources confirmed that regime forces released the women who were arrested in Kanaker on September 19, after the recent security tension in the town, including the imposition of a tight siege and demonstrations.
New reconciliation deals were agreed on by regime security services and the gunmen of the town, with the exception of “gunmen involved in the Damascus explosions”, as the Syrian regime says, since these gunmen and other people who refuse to strike new reconciliation deals would be allowed later to leave to northern Syria region.
Moreover, regime forces lifted the siege imposed previously on the town, allowing people to travel in and out of the town.
While on October 3, reliable sources informed SOHR that after the recent security tension in Kanaker town in western Rif Dimashq, and the regime’s military build-up in preparation to storm the town, a meeting was held between regime officers and the reconciliation commission in Kanaker, which is comprising representatives of the town’s gunmen and tasked with mediating reconciliation deals between opposition fighters and the Syrian regime.
The two sides have agreed on pacification, where the town would not be stormed militarily. However, they also agreed on striking new reconciliation deals with all gunmen in the town on the condition that these gunmen join regime forces, not to stay with their arms in the town. Moreover, the people who refused to agree reconciliation deals would be allowed to leave to northern Syria. According to the new agreement, regime forces would enter Kanaker, be stationed in several posts in the town’s neighbourhoods, and establish new checkpoints and storm several farms, searching for weapons.