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Facing Alawite Backlash, Syria’s New Leaders Take Controversial Steps to Win Loyalty

The government’s program has granted amnesty to at least 50 Alawite men and arranged jobs and aid to ease post-insurrection tensions, but repairs cover less than 10% of damaged homes.

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KHAIRALLAH Dib needed a promise of amnesty to come out of hiding. He had been lying low for weeks after Alawite fighters staged a March insurrection against Syria’s new Islamist-led rulers.

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Facing Alawite backlash, Syria’s new leaders take controversial steps to win loyalty

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Qardaha: Khairallah Deeb wanted a promise of amnesty before he would come out of hiding. Deeb, an Alawite, had disappeared for weeks after Alawite militants launched an uprising in March against the new Islamist-led Syrian government. He did not take up arms and helped protect government security forces. The uprising by supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad resulted in the deaths of […]

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