Dreuz to worry about staying behind in Syria after war

When a gunshot opened outside her house in the Damascus suburbs of Ashrafiyat Sahiba, Lama Al-Hasniah caught her phone and closed herself in her bathroom.

After several hours, she was scared while walking around the streets of the army and the deserted clothes in the army-style uniforms and the desert. A heavy machine gun was installed on the military vehicle under her balcony window.

“Jihad against Druze” and “We’re going to kill you, Druz,” they were screaming.

She did not know who the men were – the terrorist, the government security forces or the completely someone – but the message was clear: as a Druz, she was not safe.

Druz – A community with its own unique methods and beliefs, which began as the off -shoot of Shia Islam – has taken into account a historically in the Syria’s political system.

The leadership of former President Bashar Al-Asad maintained a calm loyalty to the state, and in the hope that aligning with it, the protection of the other parts of Syria in the Civil War of the Civil War of 13 years will be protected from the communal bloodstream.

Most of the Druz landed on the road during the uprising, especially in the latter. However, trying to depict Syrian minority against the Islamic extremism, Asad avoided using the first iron against Druz’s protesters in other cities, revolting against his career.

They operate their own military, who defended their area against the attacks by Sunni Muslim extremist groups, who thought of Drease Heritics, while the Assad’s supporters left alone.

But the rebels under the Sunnas Islamist-led rebel, who have established the interim government, have escaped Assad.

The recent attacks on the Draz communities of Islamic Milia, which have been associated with the government in Damascus, have increased the increasing mistrust of the state.

It began with an audio recording leaked in the late April, in which the Druz religious leader, who insulted the Prophet Muhammad, was shown. Although the leader rejected his voice and the Syrian Home Ministry later confirmed that the recording was fake.

A video of a student at Holmes University in Central Syria went viral and asked Muslims to take immediate revenge against Draze, and communal violence in communities across the country increased.

Human Rights, UK -based monitoring group for the Syrian Observatory said that at least 177 people – 1 Civilians citizens, Dr. DR DRuz soldiers and security forces were killed – killed. In the fight for several days to bear in AshrafiaIn the South of the Jaramana, a attack on the Damascus suburbs and on the Suvada-Damascus highway.

Syria’s government said security forces were taken into account in Ashrafia to restore security and stability, and 16 of them were responding to the attack on their own employees who were killed.

Lama Zerdein, a pharmacy student at Damascus University, was a few weeks away from completing the degree when the violence reached her village. What started in the distant firing changed directly into the deadly attacks – artillery, mortar and chaos were torn in her neighborhood.

Her uncle came to a small bus and appealed to women and children to escape, while the men did not leave anything left behind. “The attackers had heavy machine gun and mortar,” he remembered Lama. “Our men had nothing to do with it.”

Violence did not stop in her village. At the University of Lama, the hostel rooms took place and the students were beaten by chains.

In one case, a student was struck by asking if he was a drule.

She said, “He (provocatives) told us that we left our universities according to choice,” she said. “But how can I stay? I was away from my degree of five classes and a degree. If it was not serious, why should I leave it?”

Like many druws, the fear of Lama is not a physical attacks – it is what she looks like in a state that fails to protect.

“The government says it was an unsatisfactory outlets. Okay. But when will they be held responsible?” She asked.

Her faith was further shaken by the classmates who tried to make her plight, in which Emoji, who laughs at her post, responded to her post.

“You don’t know how people really see you,” she said quietly. “I don’t know who to trust now.”

No one is convinced that the attackers are loyal to, but one thing is obvious: very much drease is worried that Syria is moving towards an intolerant Sunni-dominant order with a little space for religious minorities like herself.

“We don’t feel safe with these people,” Hadi Abu Hason told the BBC.

Lama was one of Suvida’s Draz men to protect Ashrafat Sahnaya on the day hiding in her bathroom.

The armed groups attacked him by using mortar and drone. Hadi pierced his lungs and destroyed many gaps.

This is very outrageous in the new leadership Syria, a consensus in his mind.

“Their thinking is religious, not based on the law or the kingdom. And when someone comes out of religious or communal hatred, they do not represent us,” Hadi said.

“What is the law and the state is our representation. The law protects everyone … I want protection from the law.”

The Syrian government has repeatedly emphasized the sect in the Syrian community, including the sovereignty and unity of all Syrian regions.

Since then the conflict and attacks have diminished, the government’s ability to protect minorities has diminished.

During the battle day, Israel launched aerial attacks around Ashrafia, claiming that they were targeting “activists” attacking Draz to protect the minority group.

They were also hit in one part near the Syrian president’s palace, saying that they could not “deploy troops to the south of Damascus or give no danger to the Druz community”. In Israel, there are a large number of Druz citizens in the country, and lives in the Israeli-Way Syrian Golan Heights.

Back in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, Lama Al -Hasniah said the atmosphere has changed – it was “calm, but cautious”.

She sees the neighbor again, but be careful.

“Trust is broken. Now there are people in the city who have come during the war. It is difficult to know who is now.”

The trust in the government is thin.

“They say they are working to protect all the arapeutic people. But where are the real steps? Where is the justice?” Asked Lama.

“I don’t want to be a minority. We are the same. Whatever we ask for, we have the same rights – and held responsible for those who attacked us.”