They tied his hands and killed him in cold blood as he tried to escape in the open countryside: Ibrahim Shahin was only 12 years old. And the image of his body, on the ground, lifeless, aroused horror and dismay in Syria. He was killed as Alawita, a member of a community associated with the past regime of the Assad, together with his father Somar, uncle Thaer and grandfather Ibrahim by a group of armed men with the face covered. The mayor of the village, Jawdat Fares and his son Najdat were affected to death in the same massacre. All from an agricultural area historically to the margins of socio-economic development and from which, for decades, exponents of the deposed regime came. The conditions of extreme poverty of that community of Alawiti peasants are enclosed in detail, shown by the images of the body of Ibrahim Shahin on the ground, of a black fabric cord to keep the pants related to life. With this shocking history, which occurred last Monday on the outskirts of Banis, a citizen on the Mediterranean, the Syrian civil war writes a new page of confessional violence: Sunnite armed groups, close to the new Damascus government, from early March to today have killed more than a thousand Alawiti civilians (over 1,500 according to other budgets), including women, children and the elderly, assaulting tens of tartus coastal locations and Latakia, setting fire and looting houses and shops.
The government, represented by the autoproclato president Ahmad Sharaa (Jolani), a former Qaidist leader and for years at the head of a jihadist coalition supported directly by Turkey, commissioned a commission of investigation to shed light on the killings of the early March. The Alawiti are a branch of Sciismo to which clan belong for decades allies of the Assad family, in power for over half a century until 8 December. From the 70s of the last century, the regime control and repression system has been dominated largely by Alawite personality. Numerous other Alawiti have however been dissidents and opponents, also finished, like many Syrians of other communities, in the mince of the sadly known prisons of Assad. The killing of the very young Ibrahim Shahin took place in the current context of intestine violence, imbued with the sense of revenge and revenge of a part of Syrian against other Syrians. The crime was accomplished in the fields of Harf Banamra, on the first day of the party for the end of the Ramadan and less than a month after the Pogroms of March against the Alawites, violence that prompted more than 20 thousand civilians on the coast to flee to the nearby Lebanon. After the killing of Ibrahim, the government media showed a local religious leader to say that Damascus’ security forces reported the order and security after stopping the alleged managers of the massacre. These, according to concordant local stories, came from nearby blocking place managed by government forces.