Kelompok Bersenjata Suriah Culik 300 Orang

BBC map of Syria showing the location of the town of Al-Shaddada.

KOMPAS.com-More than 300 people kidnapped by armed groups in Western Syria for two days in a series of sectarian kidnapping, said one group of monitors and residents on Saturday (16/2/2013). A wave of kidnappings that most victims are women and children, began Thursday when about 40 civilians from the majority Shiite villages and Kafraya Fua was kidnapped by armed groups in the province of Idlib. A few hours later more than 70 people from the villages and the cities of Sunnis kidnapped as retaliation by armed men near the Shiite villages.
Next, dozens of people from the opposition Sunni cities including Sarmin, Saraqeb resistance group and controlled and Maaretal Binesh-Numan was captured by armed men, said Syria propemerintah Observatory for human rights. "In two days, the number of people abducted rises to more than 300 people," says Director Rami Abdel Rahman Observatory told AFP by telephone.
The majority of the insurgents are fighting the Government's Sunni residents, while the ruling tribes and many of his supporters comes from the minority Alawi sect, one part of the Shia.
A 29-year-old resident of Fua said abduction-abduction began when a group of gunmen abducted more than 40 Sarmin people mostly from Fua and Kafraya from one passenger bus headed for Damascus. He said dozens of Sunnis kidnapped civilians as retaliation, although most of the women and children and then freed.
Residents, who spoke without prepared his name mentioned-abduction abduction say among hostile villages was regular occurrence and usually ended with the exchange of the victims.
Abduction-kidnapping increased in Syria since the beginning of the rebellion nearly two years, due to the situation of insecurity and lack of food rations in the midst of the financial crisis.