Today, May 3rd, marks the tenth anniversary of the massacre committed by the Syrian regime forces in the city of Baniyas in rural Tartous, which killed more than 500 civilians.
Regarding this massacre, the Syrian Network for Human Rights says that the regime forces stormed the town of Al-Bayda in Baniyas countryside after besieging and bombing it, and then began liquidation operations on a sectarian basis, killing 264 civilians, including 36 children and 28 women.
SNHR indicated that most of the victims died of slaughter with knives and machetes, and field execution by shooting them from a close range.
After that, the regime forces began to pursue the people who fled to the nearby orchards and farms, and began arresting and executing them.
The network confirmed that the perpetrators of this massacre were members of the militia affiliated with the regime from the loyal Alawite villages, as a number of detainees were transferred to those villages, executed, and their bodies burned there.
The next day, the regime forces stormed the Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood after besieging and bombing it with heavy artillery and rocket launchers, and then began a campaign of sectarian cleansing by storming all the houses of the neighborhood, shooting and slaughtering everyone who was present in them.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said that this massacre claimed the lives of 195 people, including 56 children and 43 women, bringing the total number of victims documented by name and photo to 459 civilians, including 92 children and 71 women.
