Cov neeg tawm tsam hauv tebchaws Syria yog ib feem ntawm kev tawm tsam ntau hauv tebchaws Arab - "Arab Caij nplooj ntoos hlav". Txij xyoo 1963, lub tebchaws tau tswj hwm los ntawm Arab Socialist Renaissance Party (Baath). Bashir Assad hloov nws txiv, Hafez Assad ua tus thawj tswj hwm. Cov kev xaiv tsa tau muaj nyob rau hauv daim ntawv ntawm kev tawm suab, thaum lub sijhawm nws tau xav kom teb cov lus nug ntawm seb cov pej xeem pom zoo rau tib tug neeg sib tw - B. Assad - los ua tus thawj tswj hwm.
Lub Ib Hlis 2011, ntau cov kev tawm tsam tawm tsam tsoomfwv tau pib, tsis txaus siab rau qhov tsis txaus ntseeg ntawm cov neeg kav teb chaws thiab qhov tseeb ntawm kev tswj hwm ntawm tsev neeg Assad. Nrog rau kev tawm tsam yam muaj kev tawm tsam (ua haujlwm thiab muaj kev tshaib kev nqhis), cov neeg tawm tsam siv nrog cov tub ceev xwm, hlawv lub chaw haujlwm hauv tsoomfwv thiab lwm yam kev ua txhaum cai
Tsoomfwv tau siv pab tub rog los tua cov kev kub ntxhov. Muaj qee kis ntawm kev tua cov tub rog uas tsis kam tua ntawm cov pej xeem. Cov tub rog ntawm cov tub rog ib txwm tau hla mus rau sab ntawm "Dawb Syrian Army" (cov tub rog tsim los ntawm cov neeg tawm tsam). Militarized pawg ntawm Islamists kuj tau koom nrog nws.
Raws li kev tawm tsam ntxiv zuj zus, kev iab siab kuj nce rau ob tog. Vim tias qhov kev tawm tsam, cov neeg tuag tau tuag, thiab ob tog sim siv lawv qhov kev tuag rau qhov laj thawj. Thaum lub Tsib Hlis 25, 2012, xov xwm ntiaj teb tshaj tawm txog kev tuag ntawm ntau tshaj 90 tus neeg pej xeem hauv tebchaws Syrian lub zos El-Houla, suav nrog ntau dua 30 tus menyuam. Tom qab ntawd, nws tau ua rau 108 tus neeg tuag.
Txij thaum chiv keeb los, UN Human Rights Committee tau cem cem Bashir Assad kom tuag, uas lees tias cov pej xeem yog cov raug tua los ntawm tsoomfwv cov tub rog. Txawm li cas los xij, kev tshawb nrhiav pom tias tsuas yog 20 tus neeg raug tua los ntawm cov plaub hau uas mob. Tus so tau raug tua los ntawm kev txhaj tshuaj tiv thaiv nyob ze lossis tua rau kom tuag.
Tsoomfwv Syrian tau hais tias nws tsis muaj dab tsi ua rau kev tuag ntawm cov neeg tuag, vim nws cov tub rog tsis nyob hauv lub zos, thiab liam tias tau tua cov neeg Islamic. Kev tshawb nrhiav ntxiv ntawm cov xwm txheej no los ntawm cov neeg soj ntsuam UN muab lub laj thawj ntseeg tias hauv qhov xwm txheej no tsoomfwv tau qhia qhov tseeb. Cov Islamists tuaj yeem xav nyob rau hauv kev cuam tshuam kev sib tham txog kev thaj yeeb ntawm ob tog ntawm kev tsis sib haum xeeb hauv kev coj ua ntawm UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.