Security campaigns | Regime forces arrest dozens of young male in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, driving them to mandatory service

Deir Ezzor province: SOHR has reported that the military security services affiliated to Syrian regime arrested dozens of young males in a security campaign with the aim to drive them to mandatory service in Mayadeen, Al-Asharar and Sabikhyan in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

 

This development comes in light of rejection by residents of these areas of joining regime army, as youth evade the regime checkpoints to avoid being captured , while Iranian militias are working on attracting youth using its influence and incentives they offer to those youth, mainly the services provided in Deir Ezzor.

 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had monitored graffiti left by unknown people on the walls of schools in Deir Ezzor.

 

According to Syrian Observatory sources, the graffiti demanded the departure of Bashar al-Assad and the overthrow of the Syrian regime, as these graffiti were written on the schools of Adnan Akab and Jamil Alwan in the neighborhood of Al-Jura in Deir Ezzor, under the crack down by regime forces.

 

Last February, Syrian Observatory activists reported that unknown individuals left graffiti on the walls of the electricity company’s warehouses in Al-Mayadeen city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, expressing rejection of the Iranian presence in Syria. The graffiti reads “kick the Iranians out…the Iranians are murderers not defenders”.

 

This development came in light of “Shiite-style” cultural activities which attracted the region’s people to join the Iranian-affiliated military formations.