Photo of Ghiath Dalla, taken from the X account of Tim Anderson, director of the Center for Counter Hegemonic Studies (CCHS), based in Australia.
Ghiath Dalla is one of the main leaders of the uprising launched last Thursday by supporters of the ousted Syrian president against the new security forces in the Alawite majority coastal provinces of Tartous and Latakia.In the past few hours, several Syrian internet users have even suggested that Dalla, an Alawite, ordered the killing of civilians from his community to suppress those who dared to rally with interim government forces. Since the outbreak of clashes between those loyal to the former regime and the transition forces, more than 1,500 people have been killed, including almost a thousand civilians — mostly Alawites — according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Read more Former HTS dissident speaks out: ‘The world must know' 'Maher al-Assad's armed wing'Dalla’s face has resurfaced on social media in recent days,...
Ghiath Dalla is one of the main leaders of the uprising launched last Thursday by supporters of the ousted Syrian president against the new security forces in the Alawite majority coastal provinces of Tartous and Latakia.In the past few hours, several Syrian internet users have even suggested that Dalla, an Alawite, ordered the killing of civilians from his community to suppress those who dared to rally with interim government forces. Since the outbreak of clashes between those loyal to the former regime and the transition forces, more than 1,500 people have been killed, including almost a thousand civilians — mostly Alawites — according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Read more Former HTS dissident speaks out: ‘The world must know' 'Maher al-Assad's armed wing'Dalla’s face has resurfaced on social media in...