Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to eyewitnesses and video, providing a gruesome picture of a crackdown against remnants of the former Assad regime that spiraled into communal killings.
Assad’s fall, at least 64 kidnappings and executions have been recorded in Homs, a major city in central Syria. Most victims are Alawites, the religious minority tied to the Assad family.
When it became fairly certain that former Syrian president Bashar Al Assad's regime was doomed in the first week of December, cars carrying hundreds of people clogged the main motorway from the centre of the country to the coast.
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