Families return to villages in Syria’s Daraa with Russian guarantee
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, a local source from Daraa, south Syria, said that dozens of families from Daraa countryside returned to their villages today with a Russian guarantee, after ten years of displacement.
Hassan Muhammad, a media activist from Lajat, northeast of Daraa, told North Press that the residents of the villages of al-Shiyah, al-Shomara, al-Alali and al-Mudawara returned this afternoon to their villages in the Daraa countryside.
The residents of the aforementioned villages were displaced ten years ago, due to battles, as they are adjacent to military units of the government forces.
The activist added that the process was carried out in coordination between the Russian Military Police, the Eighth Brigade of the Fifth Corps in Daraa, and the security and military forces.
He pointed out that about three hundred people gathered in the cities of Busra al-Sham, Khirbet Ghazaleh, and the town of Najeh, and buses took them to their villages in the Lajat area, accompanied by the Russian military police.
The return process comes nearly three years after the implementation of the settlement and reconciliation agreements in southern Syria, according to which all displaced people were supposed to return to their villages after its implementation.
The agreement stipulated the evacuation of the military headquarters from the villages whose residents have agreed to return to, while the military checkpoints remain on the outskirts of the villages without interfering with the population and with a guarantee from the Russian Military Police and the Eighth Brigade.