As Syria marks one year since Assad fall, some minorities skip celebrations
Despite President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s vows to protect all of Syria’s communities, sectarian violence has spiked against the minorities, namely against Alawites and Druze.
While scores of Syrians celebrate the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime on Monday with military parades and other public celebrations across the country, the nation's minorities showed little enthusiasm to participate amid rising sectarian violence and revenge killings.
Syria’s Druze and Alawite minorities have faced repeated waves of attacks since President Ahmed al-Sharaa took power after a rebel offensive led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group — which he headed — ousted President Bashar al-Assad Dec. 8, 2024.
Sharaa has repeatedly vowed to protect Syria’s unity and safeguard its minority communities. However, bouts of violence that erupted in some areas of Syria this past year have cast doubt on those pledges.
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