Syria:  From Genocide, to Persecution, to Displacement


There is  good news regarding narcotic traffic, both production and supply lines, traveling through Syria.  A couple of days ago a shipment of 150,000 Captagon tablets were seized by Jordanian authorities assisted by Syria's anti-narcotic flank at the Jaber border crossing. They were hidden in tires.   It is important to remove this product before it hits the streets.




But the bad news is that chemicals - while capable of snuffing out a pulse - do not have a human pulse. And Syria continues to be a cluster f-ck with the current terrorist-turned-self-appointed President in charge.  We can save the world from Captagon, but we cannot save the Syrians from the hellscape orchestrated within their borders.

From genocide, to persecution, to displacement, this is the bigger story which is largely ignored by MSM.   Because Syria is not meant to create an outcry, but a stifled cough;  like that stifled cough in a political theater which we tend to ignore because we are engulfed in watching the FIFA World Cup.

I prefer to stand my watch.

I still remember viewing a video early after the rise of al-Julani to the presidency. A military commander told his troops not to record any of their activities/atrocities.  Without a digital record, there would be no proof.  Luckily, citizens on the ground continue to function as reporters regarding the absolute turmoil within the Syrian border.  And the murders, kidnappings, persecution, and displacement continue.

Displacement:

"On the morning of Monday, June 29, 2026, Homs Province vehicles and bulldozers, escorted by General Security militias, moved into Al-Mazra, a predominantly Shia village situated west of the city of Homs, and demolished 10 homes. The operation followed the deliberate cutoff of water and electricity to the village. Residents who remained were given 72 hours to leave.

A widely shared image of messages, allegedly distributed to General Security militia members and armed factions on Sunday, June 28, informed them of the need to clear the Al-Mazra’a and Al-Raqqa areas near the Al-Waer neighborhood in advance of their planned demolition on Monday, June 29. The messages indicated that the operation was being carried out “on orders from Homs Province leadership.” Local sources reported that the demolitions were accompanied by verbal abuse and threats from General Security militia members, and that residents and bystanders were prevented from filming the destruction. A delegation of villagers traveled to the Homs Province headquarters to seek intervention, but the governor, appointed by the transitional government, declined to receive them. As a result of what sources are characterizing as a sectarian displacement campaign, the roughly 1,000 families who call Al-Mazra’a home now face the prospect of forced expulsion. The STG has offered justifications for demolition orders targeting Alawite neighborhoods around Damascus, citing construction on state-owned land or the absence of building permits. However, this rationale does not hold up against Syrian realities on the ground: a significant number of unlicensed and unauthorized neighborhoods in Damascus, Homs, and several other provinces belong to Sunni residents, yet demolition laws are not being enforced there. What many citizens see is the deliberate routing of sectarian displacement operations through a legal framework, using the appearance of regulatory enforcement to carry out what amounts to systematic demographic targeting."

Persecution:

A religious shrine belonging to the Alawite community was set on fire in the village of al-Arida, in western rural Homs, on June 29, 2026. Local sources have attributed the attack to security personnel and armed factions from the city of Talkhalakh. The incident is not an isolated one, and over the past year the same groups have carried out repeated attacks on religious shrines across the region, raising serious concerns about the systematic targeting of Alawite holy sites.









Persecution, kidnapping and probably (torture) and murder:

According to Soldiers of Christ Platform, Amal Nimr Awad, 65, went missing yesterday evening, June 27, 2026, in Homs, around 11:00 PM, in the area between the Al-Hamidiyah and Wadi Al-Sayeh neighborhoods. No information has been received regarding her whereabouts or fate.



So while we send up a shout about interrupting the flow of Captagon coming out of Syria the greater world seems incapable of addressing the issue of human heartbeats.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10428/





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