Syria's Jolani Invited To EU Donor Summit At Very Moment His Troops Massacre Alawites, Christians
By Tyler Durden | March 13, 2025
Many local eyewitness accounts say that the Syrian jihadist mass killings targeting Alawites and Christians along Syria's coast in Latakia and Tartous governates is continuing, even as the mainstream media has largely stopped covering the massacres. The killings began on a large-scale last Friday and appear to have continued, despite denials from Damascus.
For example, well-known Mideast regional correspondent said Tuesday - at a time when many thought the killings were over - "I just got an urgent message from somebody in Baniyas, Syria telling me that gunmen are RIGHT NOW spotted in the small Alawite village of Al Sin, close to Huraysun & 10 km north of Baniyas. Gunmen roaming through the village. Civilians terrified, hiding in houses & nearby fields."
Tens of thousands of persecuted Syrian civilians are currently seeking the safety of both northern Lebanon and Russia's Kmeimim Air Base, as we documented earlier. In some cases, troops from Jolani's ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as well as foreign fighters are approaching the gates of the base as they hunt down Alawites and non-Sunni 'heretics'.
Syria's self-declared President Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani) is paying lip-service to 'investigations' into the killings, and has called for a halt to the attacks on religious minorities. Apparently this is good enough for the European Union, as Sharaa has just been invoved to address a European Commission donor's conference.
"Syria's foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani is set to attend a donor summit for his country in Brussels on March 17, a European official told Reuters on Wednesday, the first time Syria will be formally represented at the yearly conference," Reuters reports.
"The official said that Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa was not expected to be at the donor meeting, after a Syrian source and two diplomats had told Reuters he was expected there."
But the fact that his government will be represented, and that Jolani was directly invited - despite still being deemed by the US and many Western governments a terrorist, and at a moment his forces are slaughtering innocent civilians - is a deep irony and an absurd outrage.
The European Union has of course long been on Washington's regime change bandwagon in Syria, which included the Gulf monarchies as well as Israel. The EU just began lifting some sanctions on Syria, but only in the wake of Assad's December 8 ouster.
The reality remains that the only country involved in Syria which seems focused on actually protecting Alawites, Christians and Druze is Russia. Their coastal base is now an encampment for some 10,000 people who have fled Jolani's death squads.
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