Eyewitness
Eyewitness
Sky News obtains first accounts of what happened inside Syrian cities shaken by bloody violence
Sky News has been hearing from victims and survivors of revenge attacks in the Latakia region between fighters loyal to the deposed president Bashar al Assad and forces affiliated to Syria's new rulers.
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Cities like Jableh, on Syria's Mediterranean coast, are almost unrecognisable now
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The debris of battle is everywhere after pro-Assad militia attacked the city
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The Hmeimim air base is home to the Russian military in Syria
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The site is also now home to as many as 10,000 Alawites camping in and around the area
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Thousands of people are in tents or under makeshift cover
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One of many children displaced after her family were attacked by pro-Assad militia
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Some are sleeping rough or in their cars
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Crowds gather around Sky’s Stuart Ramsay to describe how they were burnt out of their homes, and their relatives were killed
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People in mourning after killings
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Grieving relatives have described how their families were slaughtered
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A mass grave in the village of Al-Sanobar
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Sticks have been placed in the earth to show where a body is buried
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Latakia Governorate, on Syria's Mediterranean coast, is where most of the killings of civilians took place
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Convoys of government security forces are patrolling all the areas where the killings took place
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The head of General Security, Mustafa Kunefate, tells Sky's Stuart Ramsay the killings must not happen again
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Kunefate: What happened was unacceptable
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Security convoys patrol cities like Jableh, badly damaged during fighting with pro-Assad forces.
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Sunni civilians in the city of Jableh were also murdered by pro-Assad fighters, including Imad Bitar's father Talal
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