Since the seizure of power by the reactionary proxy forces in Syria on December 8, 2024 and the establishment of an authoritarian regime, which was enshrined on January 29, 2025 through decisions taken by the meeting of leaders of terrorist organizations, campaigns of abuse against Syrian citizens have escalated. Most regions of the country have witnessed successive incidents of kidnapping, looting and assassination, which were described by the reactionary authorities and their mouthpieces as individual acts, but took on a systematic character. This was accompanied by the dismissal of thousands of state and public sector workers, which led to the disruption of their livelihoods and increased their misery. Although these arbitrary acts cover most areas of the country, in this way or another, they have taken on a heinous character in the Syrian coast and in some parts of Homs and Hama, where they took the form of daily practices.
It was natural that these acts of the reactionary puppet authorities would naturally meet with varied reactions. And one of the most prominent manifestations of this is protests, sit-ins and vigils of a peaceful nature demanding the restoration of social rights and the cessation of daily violence and abuse. But this did not restrain the reactionaries who continued their criminal acts on an escalating basis. The assassinations carried out by the reactionaries in one of the popular suburbs of the city of Latakia, as well as in the countryside of Jablet al-Sharara, led to the outbreak of hostilities carried out by armed groups of the people of the coast.
The reactionary tyrannical authority and its mouthpieces are trying to attribute these actions to the former regime and to some regional powers, and this is also what most of the satellite channels of the Gulf regimes have adopted. But the reality is that these combat operations were a reaction to an unjust act. This is regardless of the correctness of its shape and the accuracy of its timing. The reactionary and tyrannical authorities took advantage of these hostilities, which took place mainly on March 6, 2025, by mobilizing terrorist factions of every color and dress, and from all their locations, from Idlib to Quneitra, and sent them to the Syrian coast. These terrorist gangs carried out heinous acts against the peaceful population along the Syrian coast. Unarmed civilians, children, and the elderly have been killed in the hundreds. There was mass looting and burning of houses. The more remote the areas are, the more brutal the practices are, as there are some villages where most of the inhabitants have been exterminated.
What the Syrian coast has witnessed in recent days is genocide similar to those carried out by fascists and their collaborators during World War II. This similarity is compounded by the visible participation of foreign mercenaries, including jihadists of Uyghur and Chechen background, and other murderous criminals wanted in their countries, who participated in atrocities with their counterparts from Idlib and some other Syrian regions.
The acts of genocide in the Syrian coast show that the hopes for the “dawn of freedom” and the “era of justice” that some had after December 8, 2024, are nothing but flimsy illusions. The mask fell off of the authoritarian puppet power and its savage face appeared. Yes, there is savagery directed at the Syrian people, and on the other hand there is tenderness towards Israel and other colonial powers. It is also increasing in light of all that our homeland is witnessing, the efforts of the Netanyahu government and other world imperialist powers to divide Syria. These enemy forces are working to exploit and fuel sectarian tendencies, and the reactionary tyrannical authority has a great deal to do with this.
The dangerous situation that our homeland Syria is going through calls for the cohesion of all national forces in the face of the reactionary puppet authority and colonial conspiracies, and in the struggle to achieve national independence and full national sovereignty, to consolidate the unity of the national territory and to sweep away all the occupiers, Israelis, Americans and Turks, from it. This is the main task that stands before the patriots of the country. Freedom and a decent living for the people can only be achieved by ending occupation and colonial domination.
Down with colonialism and the rule of its agents!
Shame for the crimes of the reactionaries and their sponsors!
Long live the unity of the homeland! Its pillar is the popular working masses!
O patriots throughout our beloved Syria, we will fight together shoulder to shoulder for a free homeland and a happy people!
Damascus, March 10, 2025,
Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party