Druze consent in the Syrian city, which is vibrating violence, to disarm the militias

The sirens, a truck of armed men who were in the wake of it, was the black sports facilities vehicle that cut off the sharks through the Syrian town of Ashrafa Satnaya on Friday morning.

Government forces regained control of armed groups that turned the city into a sectarian battlefield for two days this week, Dozens And exposing everyone to see the new Syrian leaders Fist Security. Now, government representatives have arrived to pledge peace to a skeptical city.

In a usual religious meeting hall, Echo, two officials, who wore suits along with the leaders of the white danger of the religious minority in the traditional white hats known in red, talked about the unit.

“We are all in one ship,” said Jamele Modher, the first official in the region. “If you are drowned, God forbid, we will all drown.”

The words were not new, but this time they came with work.

The main Druze militias in Syria, which controls a strategic group of southern Syria near Israel, have Batch By the new Islamic government, which is folded in the national army, for fear that its people will endanger its people.

But with the bloodshed this week, the local Druze leaders in Ashraf Sashnaya went in the other direction. In exchange for government concessions, including promises to investigate the violations committed during the clashes, they agreed to hand over their weapons and integrate some fighters in the government forces.

“We must love each other, and we must all stand with each other.” “We do not want to carry weapons. We do not want to be against the state.”

This was what the government had hoped to hear for months now, after the rebels overthrew the Sunni Muslim majority in Syria, Bashar al -Assad’s dictatorship in December. But many Syrians, many religious and ethnic minorities in the country, are still cautious about their new leaders amid their repetition Violence cramps targeting minoritiesIncluding the Druze.

This week, an unimaginable audio clip incited to be a cleric who insults the Prophet Muhammad, the annual extremists to attack the Druze, including in the Ashraf Satanaya, south of Damascus, the capital. At least 101 people were killedIncluding government forces, Druze fighters and civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British -based war screen.

In Ashraf Satnaya, where the various sects lived in peace, mortar shells and shells crashed into the buildings. The drones were struck from the sky, and the population was raised at home while the locality militia fighters were fighting government forces and armed Sunni extremists.

The rebel coalition that overthrew the corruption of some Islamic extremist factions that are still outside the central control, and that the Syrian authorities did not show a great ability to restrain.

Israel, whose government is close to the Israeli Druze minority, and then interfered with the name of the Syrian Druze Protection, Air strikes launch On the goals of the Syrian government.

There are more than a million lessons across the Middle East, most of them in Syria and Lebanon, some in Jordan and Israel. They practice a secret branch of Islam.

By Friday, bloodshed seemed more than a raw wound of memory for many.

A man demanded at Friday meeting to develop the government on security and safety. In dispensing the tone of reconciliation to others present, the forces accused the rule of slaughtering civilians.

He appealed to officials at the meeting to be patient.

“We promise you a better life,” said the government official, the government official. “What is happening to you will happen to us. It is the government’s duty to protect everyone.”

He bought some listeners.

Saleh Makiki, his nephew Haj Ali, said that he lost five relatives this week, including his father, son and uncle. However, he said he was ready to move forward.

“Errors have occurred, but we have assurances now,” he said. The government later launched 32 local men detained during the clashes, and met them as a major request from the Druze.

Outside the meeting hall, however, opinions were divided.

Through the street, Bahira Haj Ali, 42, bowed her window to watch the sheikh, near, leaving.

“It is good for us to have men to resist,” she said about the local Druze militia. “You cannot imagine the sounds we heard – shells, drones.” He was It is difficult to trust She added that government forces had felt that they could feel different if men from his Ashraf Satnaya joined.

As for the weapons of the Lessons militias, Mrs. Haj Ali said: “This is our security. It should not be abandoned.”

In the city, there was a dispute over how violence started.

Some of the Sunnis said that the gunmen who attacked lessons attacked government checkpoints after the extremists attacked a nearby town, while some lessons said that the Sunni extremists had been hit first.

Around the town’s square, wipes the broken and bullet covers on the floor. Dozens of young people walked in the field after Friday prayers ended in a nearby mosque, waving the flag of Haya Taher Al -Sham, the Sunni The previous rebel group This took power in December.

“One, one, one,” chanted. “The Syrian people are one.”

But often, their sect, not their country, emphasized.

“These are the Sunnah,” they chanted. “The Prophet Muhammad is our eternal leader.”