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The forces of the Bashar al-Assad’s regime and its allied militias continued for a fourth day in a row their campaign of raids accompanied by widespread arrests in the city of Lajat in the northeastern Daraa countryside in southern Syria, the Syrian Observer reported.
Regime forces raided the city after it entered into a “reconciliation” deal with opposition forces. Alsouria Net’s correspondent in southern Syria said that on Monday, the “Al-Nimr” forces under General Suhail Hassan, participated in raids of the villages and towns of al-Shoumara, Jadal, and al-Shiyah in Lajat.
He said that regime forces attacked women, stole gold and looted the homes of many civilians, in a clear breach of the agreement which Russia oversaw.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that a mood of discontent prevailed in Daraa province in the northeastern sector of its countryside specifically as a result of the ongoing raids.
The Observatory said that the discontent was escalating in the wake of armed regime loyalists abusing civilians, beating and insulting them, as well as striking and insulting female residents, and searching them for money and jewelry.
The Alsouria Net correspondent said that one of the justifications the regime forces used to raid Lajat was that they were “searching for members of the Islamic State organization” although, according to the city’s residents the area was devoid of the extremists.
Source: The Syrian Observer.