When violence broke out in the coastal area in Syria recently, including mass killings of civilians who were claiming to have avenged attacks on the Syrian security forces, volunteer rescuers soon came to help.
They were part of the Syrian Civil Defense Group known as white helmets, which were working in rebel areas during the civil war.
After the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al -Assad in December, the White Helmets arrived in the capital of Syria, Damascus, who were welcomed as heroes by those who supported the opposition.
Since then, they have started working in more regions of the country that has been wrapped in the war.
Most of those who were killed in the recent attacks, which took place over a few days earlier this month, were alawites – a branch of Shiite Islam and the Assad minority sector.
“When we go to save a needy person, we do not ask them about their religion or their political opinion … our state is to help the needy.” Told BBC.
Throughout the civil war, Assad described the white helmets a terrorist group, claiming that it worked as armed rebels. But the group has always said that it was a neutral humanitarian organization and was praised all over the world because of its work.
“We are Syrians, and we cannot separate our care for one region more than other regions,” said Caall. “It is our homeland, and we consider ourselves an umbrella to serve all Syrians.”
The last explosion of the violence was the worst in Syria since the interim president, Ahmed Al -Sharra, led the rebellious rebel attack that overthrew a lion.
Tensions have been brewing since December, when the Assad's supporters 14 Interior Ministry soldiers were killed in an ambushTwo weeks after the overthrow of the former president.
“We are here to serve everyone without any distinction,” said Caall.
“Our slogan is” saving one life is to save all humanity. “
Last week, BBC News joined the white helmets, where volunteers obtained repetitive reports after reports of a massacre in the village of Paramada.
The team regained 10 bodies of government fighters, which seemed to have been thrown from the hill to Wadi. Their hands and feet were linked, indicating that they have been arrested by the opposing side.
Saber, a state security officer who was at the scene of the accident, accused Assad's loyalists of being responsible for the death of hundreds of his colleagues. BBC News cannot verify this claim independently.
“When Syria was liberated from the Assad regime, we tried to keep everything under control, to unify Syria, with all its provinces and components, to rebuild a new Syria, we want to be proud of in the Middle East,” he said.
But he added that this was difficult, because “when we took control of the country, we faced a personal problem with the militia (hostile to Assad) because the majority of them were victims of chemical, bombs, massacres and many crimes that caused a devastating psychological influence on it.”
Online photos and videos seem to show soldiers who kill civilians, including children, in the coastal areas where the upper killings occurred.
A man, Mine, BBC News, told his son and aunt who had been killed by the security forces. He buried them in his courtyard so that they could stay close.
“We have suffered during the era of Assad, and now we ruled under this new government,” he said.
Maine's wife cried as she looked at the image of her son. “What did he do?” I asked. “He was 20 years old and did nothing to harm anyone.”
Al -Sharra, the temporary head of Syria, established an independent committee to investigate the killings and insisted that the perpetrators would receive responsibility.
But if his government wants to prevent a new civil war, many of them feel that it must prove that it can protect the Alawites and ensure the rights of all citizens in the new Syria.
