It’s muddy insofar as the government’s responsibility for, control over, and actual effort put forward to restrain sectarian reprise-killings is in question. Officially, they’ve come out strongly against it, and realistically, they probably have little control.
However, some believe, not without reason, that they aren’t particularly interested in restraining the reprise-killings, either out of the belief that it will suppress Assadist insurgents, or out of spite against Alawite communities which supported Assad.
I don’t know how to respond to this but to say I’m anti-assad? This feels pretty clear cut
It’s muddy insofar as the government’s responsibility for, control over, and actual effort put forward to restrain sectarian reprise-killings is in question. Officially, they’ve come out strongly against it, and realistically, they probably have little control.
However, some believe, not without reason, that they aren’t particularly interested in restraining the reprise-killings, either out of the belief that it will suppress Assadist insurgents, or out of spite against Alawite communities which supported Assad.