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Beirut: The Haydar family huddles in their apartment while armed men tracked up their hometown of Baniyas, chasing members of the Syrian minority Allawite sect like them. After 24 terrifying hours, a friend helped Samir Haydar, his wife and two sons escape just in time.
A few minutes later, the armed men, who were Sunni Muslims, burst into his building and killed the Alawites still there, said Haydar. In the street, armed men took Haydars two older brothers and a nephew from their house and also killed them.
If I had stayed for five more minutes, with my whole family would have been killed, Haydar, 67 years old.

Last weekend, sectarian violence was perhaps among the bloody 72 hours in modern history Syria, including the 14 years of civil war from which the country is emerging now and threatens to open an endless cycle of revenge. From Friday to Sunday evening, the attackers were unleashed through the coastal provinces strongly populated by Alawites, as well as neighboring provinces of Hama and Homs, killing people, sometimes whole families, in the streets, in the houses, on the roofs.
Of the approximately 1,000 civilians killed, nearly 200 were in Baniyas, according to the Syrian observatory based in the United Kingdom for Human Rights, a war instructor. The toll could not be confirmed independently.
Among the attackers, say the witnesses, there were Sunni Islamists of the hard line, including jihadist foreign fighters based in neighboring provinces. Some had been allies to Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, the dissolved insurgents group who, in December, led the reversal of the longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and whose members dominate the interim government which now directs the country.
But many were local Sunnis, unleashing the turned hatreds on the past atrocities blamed in the Alawites loyal to Assad.
The survivors say that some of the Baniyas attackers were Syrians of the surrounding villages seeking revenge on a massacre of 2013 in the neighboring city of Beyda, where the paramilitaries killed several hundred Sunnis. It was one of the many massacres of mass under the president of the Assad era, whose attempts to crush the demonstrations helped to foment an armed insurrection.
Assad, who is Alawite, has completed its security agencies and paramilitaries with members of the sect. Some Sunnites blame the whole community for brutal repression Assads, although the Alawites say they also suffered from his reign.
We have a lot of injustices. Many were waiting for the opportunity to let him go out, said Haydar since his hiding place after fled the house. Instead of pain teaching them mercy and doing them against murders, they translated it in addition to murders.
Government reinforcements, which, according to residents, did not intervene at the height of murders, were finally sent to restore order, and Calm seemed to be late on Monday. The government said that an independent committee appointed by the president will investigate the attacks. But the effusion of blood has deeply tainted attempts by the acting president Ahmed al-Sharaa to convince the minorities of the Syrias that he wants to include them as equal.
Blood and looting

The bloodshed began after the reports on Thursday evening reports of attacks apparently coordinated by Loyalists of Assad against the government security forces near the city of Latakia and elsewhere along the coast.
The Associated Press spoke to nine residents of villages and cities struck by violence. Some refused to give their name for fear for their safety.
Haydar said that towards Daybreak on Friday, hordes of armed Sunni descended on baniyas and surrounding villages of van and vans, and waving rifles. Another resident said they heard armed men shouting, God is tall and threatening and cursed residents of Alawite.
Images and videos quickly surfaced online, mainly published by the authors. Some show combatants in military fatigue pushing residents of houses in the streets, beating some with rifles and forcing them to bark like dogs, in humiliation. Some show fighters pulling on civilians. The hundreds of videos published could not be immediately verified.
The looting and theft were creeping. Haydar said that armed men had been in the construction of one of his older brothers, Rafik, 74, stole his valuables and left.
Hidden at home, Haydar said he saw fighters shooting a neighbor at the entrance to a neighboring building. A fighter turned the body to make sure he was dead.
Rooftop

Around noon Friday, Haydar received a call from the wife of her other brother, Iskander. She shouted that the fighters had stormed their building and kidnapped Iskander and their son, Mourad.
Later, Mourad told his mother what had happened. The fighters dragged them on the roof and did it, his father and five other men went to bed. Then they sprayed them with bullets. Miraculously, Mourad was not injured. His father and the rest of the men were killed.
Ali Sheha, a 57 -year -old resident in the same neighborhood, said five of her neighbors had been killed in the street, including two doctors and their two children. The armed men prevented anyone from coming to remove his body for hours. Acting quickly, Sheha obtained a van. He, his wife, his three children and other families have hurried and fled.
That night, the village where they took refuge were also attacked. Sheha said that he and hundreds of others run away again, sleeping for two nights outside among the olive and the pines.
On Saturday afternoon, Sheha said he knew at least 20 people killed, including three cousins ​​and two of their children with special needs, shot in their food stand.
When fighters entered the house of the nephews, they asked if his wife was Sunni because she wore a scarf. They checked his identity card and let her go. His sister, living in a building with many Christians, said that armed men spared them, as well as her husband in the 1980s.
Haydar and his family escaped with the help of a Sunni friend who negotiated for hours with the armed men, explaining that Haydar had been imprisoned by the Assads security forces.
The friend, refusing to give his name for fear of reprisals, said that the armed men had pushed and struck, criticized him for hosting alawites.
During the violence of the weekend, the friend sheltered 15 Allawites at his home, he said by phone from Baniyas.
In Tuwaym, an alawriter village in Hama Province with Sunni majority in the center of Syria, a resident said that armed men convened men, beat them with rifles and fired them. As they left, they had killed 25 family members, including his father and nine children aged four to 15.
I carried the children with my own hands. Some had their bones that came out of gaping injuries, she said, speaking under the guise of anonymity out of fear for its safety.
Consequences

In Baniyas and elsewhere, bodies were left lying in the streets, cars and buildings, have declared civil rescue teams when they were starting to recover the dead. Families publish online lists of their loved ones killed. Haydar buried his brothers on Sunday.
Sheha said that from Tuesday evening, he and hundreds of others stayed in the forests outside Baniyas, too afraid to go home. At night, when it's cold, they take shelter in a neighboring village.
Sheha, who had been part of a group of allawites civilians who sought to build bridges with the new government, said the Alawites could not be blamed for the crimes of the Assads forces. Most Alawites have been impoverished under Assad, mistreated by its best employees and forced to show loyalty and serve in the army, he said.
Instead of seeing inclusion and transitional justice, the community is targeted in revenge, he said.
Now people are no longer afraid, they are terrified, he said. They have no confidence, even in government security that are present … were terrified by anyone we see with a mask.