section_path: Violence and massacres/March/13 March
section_name: 13 March
paragraph_text: 13 March
  
  On 13 March, SOHR said it had documented 93 civilians killed in sectarian massacres, the vast majority Alawites, increasing the reported number of killed civilians to 1,476.
  
  SOHR said that residences in Qardaha were "usurped" by armed gunmen, who then expelled those living in them. They said additional gunmen set forests around Qardaha on fire, as well as several residences and properties located near Qardaha in the Latakia Mountains, including the villages of Baqna, Bishriyeh, Salata, Istamna, and Bishlama. Several pine tree forests and properties were ravaged by the fires, with Civil Defense firefighting groups being unable to reach them. Hundreds of firefighting machines had earlier been confiscated and transported away by Assad regime-associated parties, it said. Local residents fled the villages to escape the fires and violence.
  
  The SOHR demanded that Syrian government authorities specify their use of the term "regime remnants" regarding pro-Assad combatants, and to list their names in official media. The SOHR alleged the widespread justification of killings from pro-government media outlets which called murdered citizens who it said were confirmed to be unarmed (such as one son of Syrian woman who featured in one widely circulating video, whose sons were apparently killed in front of her in Al-Qabu), with many welcoming the new Syrian government, "regime remnants" due to their Alawite background.