23 Thais still in Syria, people rejoice as Assad flees
A number of Thai nationals have chosen to remain in Syria so they can assess the situation before making a decision to move back home.
The Thai Foreign Ministry reported on Monday that 22 Thai citizens in Damascus and one in Daree, which are close to Jordan’s border, were healthy and considering whether to depart or remain in Syria.
The Thai consulate in Iran, which is also in charge of Syria, contacted them on Sunday. They Thais include masseuses, individuals and families of Palestinian people.
If they decided to leave Syria, the government informed them that the ambassador was prepared to assist them in doing so, as well as to advise different Thai citizens to prevent visiting the Middle East nation as well.
Events in Syria
As Islamist-led insurgents swept into Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, sparking events all over the country and beyond as a result of his tyrannical principle.
As five years of terrible Baath party rule came to an end, Assad’s journey from the cash on Sunday, crowds cheered in the roads of Damascus.
Russian media reported that Assad and his household were in Moscow, while volunteers searched the famous Sednaya prison in the country’s capital on Monday for covert underground cells that held prisoners in secret.
Assad’s state fell 11 days after the rebels began a surprise progress, more than 13 years after Assad’s assault on anti-government protests ignited Syria’s legal war– which had become generally dormant until the rebel push.
” This victory, my brothers, is historic for the region”, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group ( HTS ) that spearheaded the advance, said in an address at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
US President Joe Biden said Assad may be “held guilty” but called the nation’s democratic revolution a “historic prospect” for Syrians to restore their nation.
‘ Syria is theirs’
People cheered in the roads as the rebel groups heralded the withdrawal of “tyrant” Assad, saying:” We declare the town of Damascus free”.
Celebratory gunfire and yells of” Syria is theirs and not the Assad mom’s” were heard as the Assad family sounded.
Hundreds of men, women, and children were spotted by AFP reporters wandering through Assad’s contemporary, airy apartment with their rooms completely stripped.
” I didn’t think I’m living this time”, sad Damascus native Amer Batha told Agency by phone.
” We’ve been waiting a long time for this day”, he said.
The rebel groups on Telegram proclaimed the close of “50 ages of oppression under Baath law, and 13 years of offences, tyranny, and movement.”
It is, they said,” the start of a new age for Syria”.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry had earlier announced earlier on Sunday that Assad had resigned from the president and had fled Syria.
Rami Abdel Rahman, the mind of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, stated to AFP that” Assad left Syria via Damascus International Airport before the military safety causes left.”
A Kremlin supply after reported to Russian news outlets that Assad and his family had been granted asylum in Moscow “on charitable basis.”
Search for Damascus captives
Around the country, people toppled statues of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s parents and the creator of the authoritarian state he inherited.
Yet the slightest hint of dissention in Syria has been the cause of death for the past 50 years.
During their progress, the insurgents said they had freed captives, including on Sunday at the Sednaya center, famous for the saddest abuses of Assad’s time.
According to the White Helmets rescue party, which had dispatched crisis teams to the facility, an intensive search was being conducted at the prison on Monday for “hidden underwater cells, apparently holding detainees.”
” The groups consist of search and rescue units, wall-breaching experts, metal door-opening crew, trained dog products, and health responders”, the group said.
UN war crimes authorities urged those taking command in the country to ensure the “atrocities” committed under Assad’s law are not repeated.
Just days after HTS announced it had captured the corporate city of Homs, Assad’s rule came to an end.
Palmyra was the second major city that the rebels seized, beginning their progress on November 27th, the same day as Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah motion started a ceasefire in the neighboring Lebanon.
Assad was backed by Hezbollah throughout the long civil war, but Jewish attacks have severely damaged its support.
A source close to the organization reported on Sunday that Hezbollah makes “vacated their jobs around Damascus.”
Units has attempted to lessen its impact in recent years despite its roots in Al-Qaeda’s Palestinian branch. American governments continue to label it as a criminal organization.
The commander of the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF), which controls much of northeast Syria, hailed the fall of Assad’s “authoritarian regime” as “historic”.
A military government affiliated with the SDF clashed on Sunday with Turkish-backed Arab soldiers in Syria’s north, leaving 26 combatants from both sides dead, the Observatory said, as the Turkish-backed party launched an offensive on the Manbij place.
‘ We’re going household’
The Observatory claimed that Israel had attacked federal protection facilities and weapons depots on Sunday in the southeast Deir Ezzor state and the outskirts of Damascus.
The topple of Assad was a “historical day in the Middle East,” according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and it marked the end of a “central connection in Iran’s axis of evil.”
The Syrian government was described as” a watershed moment” by the UN envoy for the country.
Multiple diplomatic sources told AFP that Russia requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting in New York on Monday at 3 p.m. ( Thailand time ).
Turkey, which has previously backed the criticism, called for a” soft change”.
Iran said it expected “friendly” relations with Syria to persist, even as its official in Damascus was vandalised.
Since the start of the insurgent offensive, at least 910 people have been killed, mostly soldiers but likewise including 138 citizens, the Observatory said.
Syria’s conflict has killed more than 500, 000 persons, and forced half of the population to flee their homes.
Thousands fled abroad.
” I can scarcely realize Syria”, said Reda al-Khedr, who was only five years old when he and his family escaped Syria’s Syria in 2014.
” But then we’re going to go home to a freed Syria”, he told AFP in Cairo.
