Dozens of displaced people from al-Waer neighborhood left Zograh camp in Jarablus to return to al-Waer in Homs after they reached an agreement with the al-Assad regime on Monday.
Ammar Johmani’s reporter in the area said that more than 500 people, most of them elderly people who have no one to support them financially, headed towards al-Waer via Tadaf crossing in Aleppo. Among those returning are also young men who intend to settle their situation with the regime.
According to Ammar Johmani’s reporter, the displaced people boarded large buses sent for them by the regime after it coordinated with Adham Rajoub infamous for his ties with the al-Assad intelligence.
In agreement with Rajoub, the regime sent the buses to the Tadaf area to transport the returnees on condition those returning have a document proving their identity such as a family book or personal identity card.
Syrian activists and members of the Syrian resistance accuse Adham Rajoub of being a regime intelligence agent. Activists previously published a recording showing Rajoub, his brother, and an unidentified woman planning to liquidate leaders in al-Waer neighborhood on social media. Ammar Johmani published a special report documenting the issue.
According to Ammar Johmani’s reporter, the Free Police of the Syrian resistance secured the arrival of the displaced to the separation point between the Syrian regime and Syrian resistance controlled areas near the town of Tadaf. Representatives of the regime were waiting for the displaced there, and they supposedly transported them to al-Waer neighborhood.
Speaking to some of the displaced people returning to al-Waer neighborhood, many said they were returning mainly because of the poor services in the camps in Jarablus. Turkish organizations and the local council in Jarablus are providing assistance to those displaced from al-Waer, but the services were sub-standard apparently, and these relief organizations monopolized providing services to refugees preventing other organizations from offering services.
One of the returnees, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed that the regime promised them and gave them guarantees that they would not be harmed and they would be returned to their abandoned homes. The returnee said he was afraid about the conscription the regime imposed on men in areas under its control.
Ammar Johmani’s reporter quoted a media source who witnessed several displaced persons deciding not to return after they were convinced by people from Aleppo and members of the Syrian resistance.
Around 15,000 people were displaced from al-Waer neighborhood the last stronghold of the Syrian resistance in Homs city. Of the 14 groups of people who forcefully left the neighborhood, nine groups were taken to Jarablus, four to Idlib and one to Homs’ besieged northern countryside. The displacements came as part of an agreement between al-Waer’s residents and the regime under the auspices of Russia that brought 100 members of its military police into the neighborhood in conjunction with the evacuation of the displaced
