Hussam Muhammad, Baladi News, Damascus
Private field sources confirmed to Baladi News that dozens of residents from the "reconciliation regions" who have chosen to stay in their towns and villages amidst the forced displacement practiced by the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian allies started a voluntary forced emigration campaign towards the liberated areas in northern Syria.
"Fawaz Ibrahim", one of the civilians, said to Baladi News: "Thousands of Syrians from the popular incubator of the Syrian revolution and members of the Free Syrian Army in the towns of Damascus countryside have opted for staying in their homes to prevent demographic change, and chosen their land in exchange for holding weapons, but Assad regime betrayed us by giving false promises till it regained control over those regions and started to crack down".
"Ibrahim" was one of the arrivals in Idlib with his family, he revealed that he paid $ 5,000 to one of the regime's officials in exchange for taking him out of Assad's checkpoints and helping him to get to the outskirts of the liberated regions in the Syrian north.
The source confirmed that his decision came after the exit of more than 200 civilians and militants of FSA by different means towards Syrian north, pointing out that the motives behind their decisions differed according to the situation of each person or family.
Ibrahim also added that one of the most important motives behind this voluntary emigration was the file of the detainees in Assad's prisons, as some of those who made reconciliation with the regime took this decision depending on promises by regime's officials to take their relatives out of prisons, but it turned out to be a big lie.
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