Syrian Government Condemns Alawite Massacre, Says It Will Release Investigation Findings in Mid July - The Syrian Observer

Syria minister appears to call Alawites ’servants or criminals’

Syrian Minister of Culture Mohammed Yassin Saleh is facing growing public outrage after a video went viral this week showing him saying that members of the Alawite community either worked 'honourably' as servants or were criminals. His remarks, widely condemned as sectarian and classist, have prompted calls for his resignation and sparked cross-sectarian expressions of solidarity. The date of the video could not be verified but it appeared to be…

Syrian government condemns Alawite massacre, says it will release investigation findings in mid July - The Syrian Observer

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Syria culture minister sparks fury with Alawite slur

Syria’s culture minister, Mohammed Yassin Saleh, is facing nationwide outrage after a newly surfaced video shows him saying members of the Alawite community were either “honourable servants” or criminals rewarded by the former Assad regime. The undated footage — apparently recorded before President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December 2024 — circulated widely on social media this week. In it, Saleh claims that only Alawites “with a tendency to…

Syrian forces massacred 1,500 Alawites

By Maggie Michael, June 30, 2025The young man’s heart was sliced from his chest and placed on his body. His name was No. 56 on a handwritten list of 60 dead that included his cousins, neighbors and at least six children from their coastal Syrian village.The men who killed 25-year-old Suleiman Rashid Saad called his father from the young victim’s phone and dared him to fetch the body. It was next to the barbershop.“His chest was wide open. They c…