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Since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict, Assad regime engaged in all sorts of oppressive practices against Syrians, including mass arrests, torture, killings, and most importantly, systematic forced displacement, in what we believe has the aim of forced demographic change. 1/ 
Ten years into the conflict, it is now clear that for the Syrian regime & its Iranian & Russian allies, forced displacement of millions of Syrians since 2011 is not a mere consequence of the conflict, but a systematic policy to achieve strategic goals set out by Assad himself. 2/
The main target of this criminal policy seems to be the majority Sunni Muslims, who made up 74% of pre-war population as they're seen as the main threat to the regime & its existence. Yet the regime also targeted other groups including Christians, Ismailis & other minorities. 3/
