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'If the massacres continue, there won't be a single Alawite left in Syria'

The atrocities committed in recent days in the Latakia region are fueling existential fears among the country's largest minority.

'If the massacres continue, there won't be a single Alawite left in Syria'

Fighters of the new Syrian regime on the road between Tartous and Latakia, on Friday, March 7. (Credit: Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images via AFP)

Yara* did not wait for the fighters to reach Qardaha before fleeing. Alerted by friends and residents of nearby villages, who warned that armed factions were entering homes and killing people, she gathered a few belongings and fled with her parents...
Yara* did not wait for the fighters to reach Qardaha before fleeing. Alerted by friends and residents of nearby villages, who warned that armed factions were entering homes and killing people, she gathered a few belongings and fled with her parents...