Baladi News – Damascus (Hussam Mohammad)
Informed sources revealed to Baladi News that Assad's regime has recently sent to northern Syria figures hailing from areas in the city and countryside of Damascus, which residents were previously displaced, in order to convince the displaced to return, provided that their young son must serve in Assad's army.
Abu Ali Murad, an activist from Khan al-Shih city in the western countryside of Damascus, said that "the regime ordered what are known as the cells of reconciliation to contact displaced families having young males as well as young men who were displaced alone to prompt them to return."
"The offer provides for preparing lists of the sons of the families that would like to return. These families are informed that their sons will be recruited immediately after returning either in the army or in certain militias," The activist added, stressing that "any family that refuses to hand over their sons will still be classified as a terrorist family."
A source that declined to be named in Damascus western Ghouta emphasized that the plan of allowing the displaced to return aims at using their sons in the war against Syrians. The 4th Division and the Air Force Intelligence established a security office in most of the reconciliation cities. The chairmanship of these offices was assigned to former chiefs who worked for the regime.
The source indicated that the first task of these offices is to contact displaced families in the north and prompt them to push their sons into the regime's battles.