▲ Rebel fighters yesterday at the burning tomb of former Syrian president Hafez al Assad, father of the ousted Bashar, in the mausoleum of Qardaha, the family’s ancestral village, located in the province of Latakia.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, December 12, 2024, p. 21
Damascus. The new Syrian premier, Mohamad al Bashir, assured yesterday that the coalition led by the Islamists will guarantee the rights of all religious groups, and asked the millions of inhabitants who fled abroad to return to the country.
Precisely because we are Islamic we will guarantee the rights of the population and all confessions in Syriasaid Al Bashir, who headed a transitional government until March 1.
The rebel alliance that ended half a century of Assad rule in Syria is led by the radical Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), the former Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. The movement claims that it broke with jihadism but remains on the list of terrorists from several Western countries, including the United States.
In the interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serapublished yesterday, Bashir urged Syrians abroad to return to rebuild and do flourish the country, where Sunnis, Alawites, Christians and Kurds coexist with difficulty.
Some 6 million Syrians, around a quarter of the population, have left the country since 2011, when protests against Al Assad broke out, whose repression led to a civil war that left more than half a million dead.
come backthe leader insisted, after the governments of Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom suspended the asylum application processes of Syrian citizens.
There will be no forgiveness for torturers
Abu Mohamad al Jolani, head of HTS, who led the rebel offensive launched on November 27, reiterated yesterday that those involved in the torture and elimination of prisoners will not be forgiven.
He also stated that Syria He’s not going to get involved in another war. and that the solution to the conflict lies in withdrawal of Iranian militias, Hezbollah and the old regimeat a time when a group of fighters set fire to the mausoleum of former president Hafez al Assad, Bashar’s father, in the coastal region of Latakia.
The Baath party, of the ousted president, announced that it is suspending its activities until further notice. The party’s general secretary, Ibrahim Hadid, noted that all the party’s properties and funds will be under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance, while its income will be deposited in the Central Bank of Syria, in accordance with the law, the newspaper reported. Al Watan.
Meanwhile, the curfew imposed in Damascus and its surroundings was suspended by the rebels, who asked the population to return to work to contribute to the reconstruction of a new Syria.
Israeli forces confiscated several tanks and weapons from the Syrian army at a military post in the south of the territory, where Tel Aviv troops continue to enter to guarantee their safety in the face of the rise to power of rebels in Damascus.
