Media report: alawites are turning against Assad

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Media report: alawites are turning against Assad

In Syria threatens President Bashar al-Assad makes a makes erosion from the inside. According to a report in the “Welt am Sonntag” contact influential members of his Alawite religious community against the President.

In a statement, the alawites, the “world on Sunday” reported: “The present Regime is totalitarian and does not represent the alawites. So it can give peace must disappear, his representatives from the government.” The organizers of the Initiative and is determined to explain further: “The ruling political Power, who also represents you, represents us, our identity and guarantees that neither our security nor our Reputation.”

The Assad family belongs to the minority of the alawites, a Shiite orientation of Islam. The newspaper report says that representatives of respectable alawitischer distance themselves large families by the government and the Sunni majority population, a comprehensive reconciliation. The Initiative of clerics and politicians, even senior military officials are inaugurated. Since all the carrier of the action living in Syria, remained in their name a secret.

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The voice of every third alawites?

The leaders of the Initiative, called the “Alawite Task Force” (ATF), say that they represented about a third to 40 percent of the Alawite community. This information could not be verified conclusively. The “Welt am Sonntag” reported that she had met with the organizers several times, and the submitted materials, together with the French newspaper “Le Figaro” and the Italian “La Repubblica” is checked.

The alawites make up about ten percent of the Syrian population, but a large part of the military and secret service elite of the country. About three-quarters of Syrians are Sunni. To uncertain estimates in the world two to three million people to the Alawite grouping to profess the homeland in the Middle East. In Syria, the takeover of the BA’ath party, currently with Bashar al-Assad, the President grew in importance with the power. The Assad Regime is traditionally supported by the Shiite-dominated Iran.

Distance to Shia Islam

In its statement, the Alawite Initiative is, according to the newspaper report, it is clear from Shia Islam, and emphasizes the Alawitentum represents a third model of Islam. The members of the “Alawite Task Force” to advertise, therefore, expressly for reconciliation with the Sunnis and declare themselves ready to talk to all the representatives of the Sunnis in Syria.

In the peace negotiations in Geneva, which will be continued in the next week, refuses the Assad Regime to negotiate a resignation of the President. Last Assad had proposed a model for a new government, which should include representatives of the Opposition, independent forces and those who were loyal to the previous leadership. Problems could be solved at the Geneva talks, a draft for a new Constitution could be within a matter of weeks, Assad said the Russian news Agency RIA.

The Assad-Clan in an undated historic photo

The British foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, said of the deal: “Bashar al-Assad speaks of a unity government and says that he gives one or two hand-picked regime-friendly Opposition representatives have little significant Posts in the government.” This is not rich. Necessary a transitional government in Syria. There had to be a “change of direction”. A new government should not be Assad. Also, the US government rejects the participation of Assad in a transitional government strictly.

kle/uh (CBA, world on Sunday, rtr)