The Syrian Future Movement is following with deep concern the Human Rights Watch report issued this September, which documented grave violations committed during the events on the Syrian coast in March 2025. These violations resulted in more than 1,400 civilian casualties, including women and children, as well as arbitrary arrests and the systematic destruction of property, some of which were committed on sectarian grounds, amounting to crimes against humanity according to international standards.
The Syrian Future Movement emphasizes that this human rights report intersects with our previous statement issued by the Political Bureau of the Syrian Future Movement on August 15, 2025, in response to the report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry into the same events. In it, we emphasized the need to open transparent and comprehensive investigations, and not to be satisfied with mere formal procedures or holding individuals accountable without holding accountable the security and political structures that allowed these violations to occur.
The Syrian Future Movement believes that true justice can only be achieved through:
- Expanding the scope of accountability to include all leadership and administrative levels involved, whether directly, through complicity, or through negligence.
- Publishing the full report of the National Commission of Inquiry and making its findings freely available to the public.
- Providing legal protection for witnesses and survivors, and ensuring the independence of the judiciary in examining these cases.
- Permanently allowing independent international mechanisms access to affected areas and documenting violations without interference or restriction.
- Launching a comprehensive transitional justice process that ensures fairness and accountability and establishes a national reconciliation based on truth and the recognition of responsibility, as announced by President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
The Syrian Future Movement emphasizes that ignoring or circumventing these demands will only deepen divisions, reproduce the causes of the conflict, and pose more serious challenges to Syria’s future than those it has faced in recent years.
The Syrian Future Movement renews its call to all national and international powers concerned with the Syrian issue to support the path of justice and accountability, as this is a prerequisite for building a state of law and institutions, ensuring the non-recurrence of violations, and achieving sustainable stability based on respect for human rights and the dignity of the Syrian citizen.
