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Syria: Hundreds of Families Flee "Death Squads"
(Sunday Telegraph-UK) Magdy Samaan and Phoebe Greenwood - Hundreds of families streamed out of areas dominated by the Alawite clans of President Assad, seeking safety after a second village in two days was destroyed by death squads apparently bent on ethnic cleansing. Relatives of the dead in the Sunni Muslim villages of Bayda and Ras al-Nabaah told the Sunday Telegraph that scores had been killed by Alawite militias that attacked the villages on Thursday and Friday. Pictures posted online showed piles of disfigured bodies, including women and young children. Abu Abdullah described the massacre in Bayda: "Security and Shabiha militia entered the village with knives and guns and started to kill everybody they met. Almost 60% of the women and children of the village were killed."