15 regime soldiers were buried Friday in an official funeral in the coastal city of Tartus amid state of anger and resentment by the deaths families, activists said.
Mustafa al-Banyasi, Tartus-based activist, said the families of slain soldiers have accused regime official of corruption and betrayal.
The Syrian regime has not published official figures on its war dead. Syrian state television mostly fails to broadcast news of Alawite soldiers killed, instead playing up the deaths of their Sunni comrades, in a bid to shore up Sunni support, according to the Telegraph.
Thousands of pro-Bashar al-Assad fighters in Tartus have been killed since the revolution erupted in March 2011.
The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Syrian revolution.
Residents of Tartus, the regime's powerful militant supplier, say no men left in the city. Funeral everywhere and everyday. The daily bloodshed pushed supporters of al-Assad to demand a peace solution ending 6 the 6-year-old war.
Tartus suffered decades of negligence and constant resentment in comparison with the next-door city of Latakia where services and tourism and fortune.
The Alawites, the Assad family's sect, have seen up to a third of their young men killed in the Syrian conflict and mothers are now refusing to send their sons to war.
The peaceful demonstrations that ended up with deadly war carried out by the Syrian regime and key regional players has killed at least 465,000 people, including 150,000 children and has displaced over 12 million people