L'esercito siriano aveva molti ufficiali alauiti che sono rimasti fedeli ad Assad per una questione di appartenenza etnica....quelli che hanno disertato sono in gran parte Sunniti e altri gruppi etnici visto che appunto c'e una guerra civile.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/wo...pagewanted=all
Most of the defectors have been members of the Sunni majority, breaking away from a government dominated by Mr. Assad’s Alawite minority. Mr. Hijab, who has served in government for most of his life after receiving a Ph.D. in agriculture, is typical. The well-educated head of a Sunni family drawn into government by Mr. Assad’s father in an effort to add legitimacy to his government, he benefited from the government’s patronage before finally rejecting it.
Two of his brothers followed a similar path, with the opposition reporting that they held high positions at the Ministries of Oil and the Environment before they fled the country. And by leaving, said Sami Nader, a Lebanese political analyst, they are stripping Mr. Assad of his “Sunni veneer.”
Peraltro anche tra alcuni Alawiti per vari motivi ci sono state delle fughe
8 top Syrian Alawite officers defected to Jordan, report | Ya Libnan | World News Live from Lebanon
La lista e' incompleta e tiene conto delle piu alte personalita, non di singoli ufficiali o sottoufficiali che che hanno tagliato la corda anche loro......lo stesso del resto avvenne durante l'invasione americana in Irak, l'esercito di saddam si squaglio nottetempo.
Addirittura un generale nominato per impedire le defezioni, e' scappato pure lui !!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/wo...anted=all&_r=0
Qui un alto ufficiale racconta le ragioni di tale scelta
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...waf-Fares.html
......"There was tremendous destruction there and thousands of people had been killed,
many of them from my tribe,"






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