“Buses began to enter Serghaya town to forcibly displace 350 people, among whom 130 are opposition fighters, to Idlib,” Orient News correspondent Mohamed aAbdulrahman reported.
The move comes following an agreement signed between the negotiating committee of Serghaya and Assad regime, under the auspices of Russia that sees 150 opposition fighters along with their families displaced to Idlib.
The agreement stated that the defected soldiers and those who have evaded the compulsory conscription will be granted a period of six months to prepare themselves to serve the Assad regime, Russia and the Iran-backed sectarian militias in return for lifting the siege imposed on the city, bringing back essential services and allowing farmers to work in their farmlands, which have fallen under the complete control of the Lebanese Shiite militia, Hezbollah.
Serghaya is considered of strategic importance to Hezbollah, as it is located at the western edge of Syria, bordering Lebanon’s eastern side. It is adjacent to the eastern Lebanese mountains located to the northwest of the Syrian capital. The sectarian displacement process taking place in Serghaya falls within the policy of securing the areas surrounding the capital to implement Iran’s scheme of emptying the liberated cities and towns surrounding Damascus. On August 26, 2016, Darayya city in eastern Ghouta was emptied completely from its population. Muadamiyat al-Sham then followed on October 19, 2016, when its people were forcibly displaced from the city. Then, on October 13, 2016 Qudsayya and al-Hameh were also emptied from their residents, with Khan el-Sheeh marking the latest scene for Assad’s and his allies’ sectarian displacement policy.
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