The Minister of Information in the Syrian caretaker government, Muhammad al-Omar, said, “The new Syrian administration inherited media institutions based on sectarianism from the former regime,” stressing, “They do not want to continue with the ‘security media’ on which that regime relied.”
The Syrian Minister of Information confirmed, “The media professionals who defected from the regime at the beginning of the revolution will be the ones who will lead the media in the next stage.”
According to Al Jazeera, Al-Omar called for “deterring what he called the ‘aggression of counter-revolutions,’ after a number of confrontations by the security forces of the new Syrian administration with the remnants and militias of the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad in various parts of the country.”
Al-Omar said, “Just as we had a military operation in the name of deterring aggression, we must have an operation against counter-revolutions.”
5 mass graves discovered in Aleppo
A resident of the city of Aleppo informed the police command “of the presence of a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies.”
Brigadier General Ahmed Lattouf, Aleppo Governorate Police Commander, said, “Five mass graves were found in the city, while official documents showed that thousands of torture victims were buried in those graves.”
According to Al Jazeera, “7 thousand bodies were buried in Khan Al-Assal, west of Aleppo, most of them civilians who died under torture. Documents also showed that 1,500 detainees who died under torture were buried in the New Aleppo cemetery. Likewise, 1,200 detainees who died under torture were buried in the Naqarin cemetery.” In the city of Aleppo.”
According to the channel, “The city of Qatifah, 70 kilometers north of the capital, Damascus, contains the largest mass grave discovered so far, as press reports indicate that the number of people buried there is estimated at tens of thousands.”
Earlier, Mounir Mustafa, Deputy Director of the Syrian Civil Defense for Humanitarian Affairs, told Al Jazeera, “16 cemeteries have been discovered so far in different Syrian regions.”
Last updated: December 31, 2024 – 17:12
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