Anti-regime protest in Alawite Tartus / MESOP : WHOLE SYRIA IS SUFFERING – NOT ONLY JUST KOBANE

16-10-2014 – MESOP – Approximately a dozen protestors in the Alawite-majority city of Tartus, a support base for President Bashar al-Assad, took to the streets Wednesday demanding the fall of the regime, the first such protest in Tartus since the start of the revolution, reported pro-opposition news network All4Syria.
The participants, reportedly all of whom were Alawites, were arrested and “led off in a barbaric fashion to the military intelligence branch in the al-Hurra area,” Banan al-Hassan, a member of the Latakia branch of the civil society group Syrian Revolution General Commission, wrote on her Facebook page Wednesday.

“No one knows anything about them or their fate.”

The protest follows at least two media campaigns launched by Alawites in August against Bashar al-Assad and the ruling Baath party: The #Weinun (where are they) and #Speakup campaigns, as well as protests against the regime in Druze majority, pro-regime Suwayda province earlier this month, all of which condemned the mounting death toll among youth serving in the Syrian army.