Throwback: Syrian militants throw Alawites in cages

🇸🇾 In 2015, Syrian militants who fought against the government of Bashar Assad were caught using members of the Alawite religious minority as human shields.

➡️ The Alawite captives were locked in cages that were driven on pickup trucks in Eastern Ghouta. The captives themselves were ostensibly government officers and their family members.

➡️ The militants made no secret of their actions and openly boasted about them.

➡️ Ten years later, the militants who fought against and finally toppled Assad’s government are still persecuting and brutalizing Alawites.