VIDEO 1:
This video was shot by rebels after the withdrawal of the Shia Alawite militia following the massacres and was obtained by Al Jazeera at the time.
On May 2 and 3, 2013, Assad regime Alawite minority militia, headed by Alawite militia leader Ali Kayali, carried out a massacre in al-Bayda village and the Ras al-Nabaa neighborhood of Baniyas, Tartus Governorate, western Syria.
At least 459 Sunnis were killed, including 92 children and 71 women, while an unknown number remain missing.
The victims, including children and women, were executed, slaughtered by hand with knives, and then the Alawite militia set fire to their homes on the Syrian coast. There were no rebels at the sites and no clashes recorded prior to the Shia Alawite minority militiaās massacre of Sunni civilians.
VIDEO 2:
Video of Shia Alawite militia leader Ali Kayali (Mihrac Ural), who slaughtered children and women in Baniyas, sitting next to Ghazal Ghazal, the spiritual leader of the Shia Alawite minority in Syria, and stating:
āBaniyas could be their only access to the sea. Baniyas must be cleansedā (meaning the ethnic cleansing of Sunnis).
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