"Al-Amayiri's threat is directed at one man: Fadi Saqr. Saqr was a commander of the National Defence Forces (NDF), a militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad that was accused of atrocities like the 2013 Tadamon massacre, where, according to local Syrian officials, activists and leaked videos, dozens of people were led to a pit and shot. However, Saqr denies any links to what happened in Tadamon. He told The New York Times that he was not the NDF's leader at the time."
"Instead, Saqr is walking free. Hassan Soufan, a member of the government-appointed Committee for Civil Peace, says Saqr was granted safe passage by Syria's new leadership at the beginning of the liberation. Soufan said Saqr's release was part of a strategy to calm tensions because of his links to Alawite groups in the region. Photographs of some of al-Amayiri's family members he believes were arrested and ultimately disappeared by the pro-Assad National Defence Forces [Harriet Tatham/Al Jazeera]"
A year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's new leadership risks widespread frustration as justice is delayed or denied. Ziad Mahmoud al-Amayiri lost 10 family members and demands accountability for their disappearance. He accuses Fadi Saqr, a former National Defence Forces commander linked to the 2013 Tadamon massacre, though Saqr denies involvement and says he was not NDF leader at the time. The new leadership granted Saqr safe passage early in the liberation, a measure officials say aimed to calm tensions because of his Alawite links. Many Syrians, especially Tadamon residents, demand trials and fear impunity could provoke unrest.
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