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On Mar 16, 2025

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Dhe provisional assessments report a number of thousand civilian alawites massacred in current days in Syria by the forces of the present Islamist regime. Babies, kids, outdated individuals, girls, males: a whole bunch of movies authenticated by a number of press organs and NGOs testify to systematic abstract executions of the common HTC forces with a displayed want to destroy a individuals thought-about to be heretical. Yet terrorized by the thought of the approaching to energy of affiliated Islamists-until recently-in Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, necessary events of the nation’s minorities have repeatedly descended on the street via the violence they’re victims and that it stays tough to quantify with precision.

According to Islamist energy, repression is simply a solution to an revolt of former troopers. This thesis is completely not due given the magnitude of the killings, the racist hatred which is expressed within the executioners by torturing, mutilating and murdering defenseless civilians.

The more and more quite a few testimonies confirmed the statements of the United Nations Human Rights Office which alerted the scenario from final January, even when the depth of the final days is incomparable. All the Syrians who usually are not consistent with the Islamist ideology are focused, the laity, the Christians, the Druze and the Alawites.

Deep ties between France and minorities in Syria

With its mandate on Syria obtained after the First World War, France will create the “Alawite Territory” after which remodel it into “Alawite State” (1930). The latter will lastly be hooked up to Syria in 1936. Even right this moment, this hyperlink between France and all Christian minorities, Druze and Alaouite exists within the collective creativeness.

Read too In Syria, the worst situationAfter every exction, many demonstrators name for worldwide assist, significantly France, chanting “religion for God, the state for all”, referring to secularism, respect for minorities and democracy.

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If the officers of the Old Regime should be delivered to justice, neither the Alawites nor the opposite minorities cannot be assimilated to the ability of Bashar al-Assad, which they’ve largely suffered in the identical means as the complete Syrian inhabitants. France, benefiting from its historical past and its privileged hyperlinks, could be based within the chapter to defend its pursuits and its values within the area. Our nation should weigh with all its weight to cease this barbaric bloodbath of civilian populations that are very hooked up to France: restoring sanctions, establishing a humanitarian hall, contributing to the institution of a drive able to defending the Alawites, Christians and Druzes in Syria.

* Signator:
Fabrice Balanche, Syria specialist researcher, Lyon 2 University Lecturer
Frédéric Joseph Bianchi, President of the Association Terra Eretz Corsica Israel
Jean-Michel Blanquer, former Minister, President of the Laboratory of the Republic
Hayvi Bouzo, American-Syrian journalist, chief of the Orient News workplace in Washington
Maud Bregeon, former minister, deputy
Claire Brière-Blanchet, journalist, historian and author
Béatrice Brugère, Justice of the Peace, first vice-prosecutor of the Paris judicial court docket, secretary common of the Magistrates-Fo Unit Syndicate
Virginie Calmels, Business Chef, former deputy mayor of Bordeaux and former vice-president of Bordeaux Métropole
Carine Chaix, lawyer, president of associations in sharing and the time of childhood
Chantal Delsol, thinker and author, member of the academy of ethical and political sciences
Philippe d’Iribarne, mining engineer, anthropologist and economist, analysis director at CNRS
Lara Fatimi, lawyer
Luc Ferry, thinker and former minister
Renée Fregosi, thinker and political scientist
Anne Genetet, former minister, deputy
Noémie Halioua, journalist and essayist
Emmanuelle Hoffmann, MP
Sébastien Huyghe, deputy
Brigitte Klinkert, MP
Philippe de Lara, lecturer at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University
Michel Lauzzana, deputy
Damien Le Guay, thinker, president of the National Ethics Committee of the Funeral
Christine Le Nabour, MP
Delphine Lingemann, MP
Fadila Maaroufi, director of the European observatory of fundamentalisms
Pierre Manent, Normalien, Associate of Philosophy, Director of Honorary Studies on the EHESS
Christophe Marion, MP
Aurélien Marq, senior official, essayist
Samuel Mayol, HDR lecturer
Anne-Sophie Nogaret, essayist
Céline Pina, essayist
Faraj Alexandre Rifai, French novelist of Syrian origin
Fahimeh Robiolle, lecturer and vice-president of the France Afghanistan membership France
Charles Rowell, MP
Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, thinker and author
Josiane Sberro, author and associative activist
Freddy sertin, deputy
Jean Szlamowicz, normalien, college professor, linguist and translator
Pierre-André Taguieff, thinker, political scientist, honorary researcher at CNRS
Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, thinker, lecturer in philosophy (Sorbonne), president of the College of Philosophy
Prisca Thevenot, former minister, deputy
Vacquin, psychoanalyst and essayist monette
Caroline Valentin, lawyer, essayist
Pierre Vermeren, historian, professor of up to date historical past at Paris 1 University, specialist in Maghreb and Arab-Berber societies
Olivier Vial, director of CERU
Caroline Yadan, MP

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