Et pendant ce temps en Syrie
Razed Homes and Tight Security in an East Ghouta Town Long Ago Retaken by Government (Free Access)
▻https://www.syria-report.com/razed-homes-and-tight-security-east-ghouta-town-long-ago-retaken-gover
Earlier this year, government forces took over some homes in the town which belonged to residents forcibly exiled to northern Syria. They converted the buildings to housing for families of officers. Other homes were taken as military headquarters, vacation homes and offices, according to reliable sources in the town.
The takeover was not carried out haphazardly. The town’s municipal council formed a committee to divide up the houses according to the political status of their owners. Homes of the forcibly displaced owners were marked using two colours: Blue paint to mark homes of residents who had fled to northern Syria and Turkey, as well as for those who had defected from the army, police and government employment; and red for the homes of those who had sought refuge in Lebanon and Jordan and were not wanted by security forces.
In accordance with the committee’s work, and in compliance with directives from the security services, municipal officials and the local Baath Party section asked residents of blue-marked houses, most of whom are tenants or relatives of displaced owners, to leave. Meanwhile, government officers, and some soldiers carrying out their military service near the town, have moved into the blue houses.
According to sources active in the documentation process who spoke to The Syria Report, about 1,250 out of the original 8,000 residents from before 2011, have returned to Abbadeh. Some 1,450 families are estimated to have been displaced to northern Syria, while 300 found their way outside the country.