I wonder what the actual reason behind it was, why was it "only" 82. If they are just barging in houses and killing people, would there not be much more murders? I am not saying this isn't insensitive, it's a very richard move, but what even is the motive - what was the factor in those specific executions.
Nothing concrete yet, but tha SAA is probably purging the local populace after taking back the rebel-occupied areas. This usually happens to civilians in occupied areas who are lumped in with collaborators or sympathizers regardless of their actual actions.
See: national socialist warcrimes in occupied Poland, Belorussia and other countries, Soviet purges in Eastern Europe and Germany. NVA mass-killings in Hue and other cities, etc. there are dozens of other examples but these are the ones that come to mind.
this is exactly what I'm trying to say
it's a civil war, not a foreign occupation, the SAA is doing their job in cleaning up syria and trying to keep the major cities under control, there's really no logical benefit to them to just going around shooting up random families (who again are their own people, and from what I've seen Syrians are usually proud of their military so it's very odd to be seeing something like this)
maybe but like I said I'm gonna wait and see how the story develops and if any reasoning is given
Yes, it's surprising that the same SAA that had to be told multiple times to stop gassing it's own people and dropping ghetto bombs on it's cities would execute citizens it sees as collaborationist or politically dangerous. Totally unexpected.
