The Maan massacre was a reported massacre of
Alawites
The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isl ...
in the village of
Ma'an, Syria on 9 February 2014.
Events
On 9 February 2014, rebels of the
Jund al-Aqsa
Jund al-Aqsa ( ar, جند الأقصى ''Jund al-‘Aqṣā'', "Garrison of al-Aqsa"), later known as Liwa al-Aqsa after 7 February 2017, was a Salafist jihadist organization that was active during the Syrian Civil War. Formerly known as Sara ...
group attacked and captured the Alawite village of Maan, in
Hama province, killing 21 civilians as well as 20 pro-government militiamen according to the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
SOHR said that 14 of them were women.
The Syrian government gave a much higher death toll, initially claiming 42 civilians were killed
[ and later 60, most of them women, children and the elderly. The government blamed Nusra Front; however, rival rebel group Ahrar al-Sham said that its fighters collaborated with another group to kill around 50 pro-government fighters in the village and denied that the Nusra Front was involved.]
Aftermath
United Nations
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon later expressed great shock at the "dozens" reported dead and demanded that "perpetrators of this massacre" be brought to justice.Hatay
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See also
* List of massacres during the Syrian Civil War
This is a list of massacres committed during the Syrian civil war.
2011
* Between 31 July and 4 August 2011, during the Siege of Hama, Syrian government forces reportedly killed more than 100 people in an assault on the city of Hama. Opposit ...
References
{{Syrian civil war
Massacres of the Syrian civil war in 2014
Hama Governorate in the Syrian civil war
Massacres of the Syrian civil war perpetrated by the al-Nusra Front
Persecution of Alawites