In conjunction with the direction to resolve and end their presence…one of the commanders of ally forces of the regime raises widespread resentment due to his violations amid calls to hold him accountable

Widespread resentment prevails among the supporters of the regime and its opponents, as a result of a video shows a commander of the militiamen of the regime, in his farm, feeding predatory animals an alive horse, where the video showed the commander, Talaq Al-Daqaq, who is from Hama countryside, while he was entering an original horse in a barn where a pair of lions were located, where they killed the horse and devoured it, which raised resentment and discontent among the regime’s loyalists and opponents, while intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that Al-Daqaq, who leads a militia loyal to the regime operating in Hama countryside, has committed repeated human rights violations by carrying out arrests against tens of citizens and tortured and insulted them, and information was received about that Talaq Al-Daqaq have fed his lions, flesh of human corpses of people who were detained and abducted by forces belong to him and operating as ally forces of the regime, amid calls to hold him accountable and to end the violations he commits, while the source confirmed that an investigation about the authenticity of the video and its history and the people who appeared in it, is underway.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it obtained information about an unprecedented decision which the regime will apply in the Syrian territory, and the details obtained by the Observatory from reliable sources: it is expected that regime’s authorities in the coming period will completely resolve the forces loyal to them, which have participated along regime’s army forces as ally forces, the sources added that this direction –of which a decision is being prepared after a Russian request– came during the visit of the Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad to Russia and his meeting with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the Russian request included not only the dissolution of pro-regime militia who are supported by the regime, but also including the resolve of the Iranian-backed militia who are funded by the Iranian side operating on the Syrian soil, this decision have spread a wide resentment among members these pro-regime forces, who participated alongside the regime forces in all the battles that took place on the Syrian territory, objecting this decision of which the regime force seek to issue, where the sources confirmed that it will include either the option of permanently demobilizing members of the allied forces, or formally enrolling them in the ranks of regime’s Army.

This Russian request and the consultations of regime’s authorities regarding issuing the decision in a future period; came after series of violations in the past months and years by the regime forces, and after the increase of frequency of these violations in areas controlled by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, where these loyal forces have carried out looting operations for thousands of houses and robbed tens of thousands of citizens of their personal belongings and money, whether on the checkpoints or in villages, towns and cities from Aleppo city until the Western Ghouta, the Eastern Ghouta, Homs city and countryside, Aleppo countryside, and the countryside of Homs, Hama, south Damascus, Rif Dimashq, south Rif Dimashq, Deir Ezzor, al-Raqqah and other areas in Syria, and what provoked the regime and the Russians even more is the deliberate flee of some of the non-opposition people from regime’s conscription service toward areas controlled by these militias who are loyal to the regime forces, also the resentment increased among regime’s authorities due to this phenomenon which continued in the past years, especially after the killing, defection and injury of tens of thousands of members of the regime forces in the clash against the rebel and Islamic factions, the “Islamic State” organization and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham “Jabhat al-Nusra”, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of about 50000 members of regime’s loyal Syrian fighters, who fight in the clashes and confrontations alongside the regime, in addition to the injury of tens of thousands more and the flee of thousands others.