Submission statement: This sub is generally optimistic about Al-Sharaa and even commented positively on how he condemned violence against Alawites, but even after the massacres ended, kidnapping and raping of Alawite girls and women persists and the government isn't doing much to stop it. We should take this into consideration when assessing Al-Sharaa's government.
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Submission statement: This sub is generally optimistic about Al-Sharaa and even commented positively on how he condemned violence against Alawites, but even after the massacres ended, kidnapping and raping of Alawite girls and women persists and the government isn’t doing much to stop it. We should take this into consideration when assessing Al-Sharaa’s government.
This part stood out to me:
>Many of the kidnapped women and girls, along with their relatives, said the government had failed to take their cases seriously.
>Nour al-Din Baba, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said in an interview that he could not respond to The Times’ findings unless it provided the names for the cases it had verified, which The Times declined to do. He said that pregnancies did not prove kidnappings and that ransom messages could be fabricated.
>“For all of those ransoms, where is the proof?” he said.
>He added that he stood by a government investigation released in November that examined 42 reported kidnappings and found that only one of them was “real.”
>In the other cases, he said, the women were involved in prostitution or other crimes, ran away with lovers or fled domestic troubles. They and their families, he said, then claimed they had been kidnapped to avoid social stigma.
>The kidnap victims and their relatives painted a very different picture, one of women and girls grabbed off the street by armed men near their homes or while running errands.