One year after Assad’s fall, Syrians await transitional justice

The Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented thousands of revenge killings, peaking with the coastal massacres in March of this year. Over the span of three days, 1,500 Alawites – the minority Muslim sect to which Assad belonged – were killed after regime loyalists attacked government forces. Extrajudicial killings have continued in Alawite-majority areas of the coast and central Syria.