“They want to take revenge”: the fears of a Syrian Alaouite, ex-opponent of Assad income from exile

He had returned full of hope in Syria, mid-February. Finally finding his family after 14 years of absence and discovering that his daughters that he had left aged 3 years and a few months, had become young women. But today is the cold shower: Afaq Ahmad, 39, has returned to a divided country and bloody by the death of hundreds of Alawite civilians, a Syrian religious minority of which he himself is part.

Since the beginning of March, violent clashes have opposed pro-Assad insurgents and the forces of the new government on the Syrian coast. In this area, 10 % of the population is alawite. It is from this community that Bashar al-Assad comes from. Among them, “there are people who have done business with the old regime. There are also former soldiers, ”admits the Syrian joined by phone. This does not mean that all the Alaouites supported the ex-dictator. But they do not escape a form of revenge.

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