A statement was made on the subject from the Syrian Embassy in Beirut.
“The Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in Beirut announces that, upon the instruction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, consular work at the embassy has been suspended until further notice,” the statement said. The expression was used.
No information was given regarding the reason for the suspension of consular procedures.
On the other hand, Lebanese security sources, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition that their identities not be disclosed, said that the Syrian Embassy suspended consular procedures due to the issuance of fake passports to the wife and daughter of a cousin of deposed leader Bashar Assad.
According to the news in the Lebanese press, Dureyd Assad’s wife, Huzeim, and her daughter Shams, the son of Assad’s uncle Rifat Assad, entered Lebanon secretly because their passports had expired, and they paid high amounts to quickly pass to Egypt, and their passports were found to be valid at the embassy. It was claimed that they had forged the part.
It was reported that the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched an investigation against the Beirut Embassy to determine whether passports were given to other people from the Assad family.
It was claimed that Assad’s cousin’s wife, Huzeym, and her daughter, Shams, were detained on charges of document forgery.
Lebanese authorities announced that those who entered the country illegally would be sent back to Syria, and yesterday, approximately 70 people, including officers, from the Assad regime forces who were found to have entered Lebanon illegally were returned to Syria.
Huzeym and Shams Assad were detained at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut on December 27.
It was announced that Rifat Assad, the uncle of Syria’s deposed leader Bashar Assad and the commander of the troops that carried out the Hama Massacre in 1982, went from Beirut to Dubai on a private jet with 2 people along with him on December 24.
Bashar Assad’s uncle, Rifat Assad (86), served as Hafez Assad’s assistant.
There are accusations against Rıfat Assad by international courts for his war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially the Hama Massacre in 1982.
Rıfat Assad, who was found guilty of corruption and illegal use of Syrian state funds in France in 2021, was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
In the news published in the Syrian press, it was stated that his uncle returned to Damascus after Bashar Assad’s amnesty decision in 2021.
– HAMA MASSACRE
Special forces under the command of Rifat Assad, brother of the then Syrian leader Hafez Assad, surrounded the city to suppress the uprising launched by the Muslim Brotherhood Organization against the regime in the Hama province in the central part of the country on February 2, 1982, first bombarding it from the air, and then using artillery fire and mass executions. He massacred tens of thousands of people a day.
According to the report of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), while at least 30 thousand civilians lost their lives in the massacre carried out in the Hama provincial center between 2-28 February 1982, no news was received from at least 17 thousand civilians who were detained.
Families of people who were thought to have been taken to Tedmur (Palmira) Prison in Homs and were not heard from afterwards think that their relatives were murdered.
According to the SNHR report, districts such as El-Asida, Es Sehhane, El-Kilayniyye, Ez Zenbak, El-Hayriyya and El Basuriyye were heavily targeted in air and land attacks and bombings by the regime forces, while approximately one-third of the city center was destroyed.
88 mosques, 3 churches and many historical monuments were also destroyed in the massacre.
Source: www.star.com.tr
