Syria’s opposition leader Mouaz Alkhatib on Wednesday urged the country’s Alawite minority to join the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported:
“We send a direct message to the Alawite brethren. The Syria revolution is extending its hand to you, so extend your hand back and start civil disobedience against the regime because it repressed you like it repressed us,” Alkhatib told the “Friends of Syria” ministerial meeting in Marrakech.