Timeline of Key Events
• 8 August 2025
🔹 Explosion of a Suzuki car near “Saif” restaurant in the town of Mushtaya – Wadi al-Nasara (predominantly Christian).
🔹 Three people were injured and transported to the hospital.
🔹 The de facto authorities, through the General Security apparatus, presented a fabricated narrative: “battery or fuel tank malfunction” or “a cigarette caused the fire.”
🔹 Evidence from site photos contradicted this narrative: the iron fence was bent downward, and the front of the car (where the battery and fuel tank are located) was undamaged → indicating a deliberately staged sectarian-motivated explosion. This exposed the falsehood of the General Security narrative, which originally denied any terrorist or security-related cause, confirming their role as the perpetrators.

The conspiracy against the young martyr Milad Al-Farakh was orchestrated by Haitham Qasqas, the Mayor of Mushtaya, and a contractor named Hani Elias. They attempted to extort thousands of dollars from Milad, and there is a record of conversations as evidence.
They then coordinated with Abu Arab, the head of General Security in Wadi al-Nasara, along with two authority elements, Abu Musab and Abu Ubaida, to arrest Milad under a fabricated pretext of a “food violation” involving spoiled meat. During the arrest, they attempted to extort additional money from him.
Following his arrest, a statement was issued by the Christian Youth Council in Syria and the Diaspora, stating that Milad had been arbitrarily detained on a fabricated charge in Al-Balouna Prison, where he was subjected to severe torture, and they called for immediate intervention by the relevant authorities.
• Subsequent Fabrication
As part of further violations against Milad, elements of the de facto authorities attempted to fabricate a security case using the Suzuki car fire incident. Although the General Security had previously maintained that it was neither a security nor terrorist incident, merely a battery fire, they reopened the file to falsely accuse Milad of being a terrorist and holding responsibility for rigging the vehicle — more than a month and a half after the incident.

🔹 Milad Aziz Al-Farakh, a young unarmed Christian, was killed 15 days after his arbitrary arrest under the pretext of a “food violation.” He was subjected to severe torture and forced to make false confessions, with fabricated accusations labeling him as a terrorist. After multiple attempts by the authorities to coerce him, including physical beatings and intimidation, Milad was executed inside the detention facility by the General Security of the de facto authorities.

🔹 The de facto authorities informed his family that he had died of a “heart attack,” a statement clearly contradicted by the photos of his body, exposing the false narrative presented by General Security.

Milad Aziz Al-Farakh was tortured to death following an arbitrary arrest on a baseless pretext. This crime is not an isolated incident but part of an organized campaign amounting to systematic ethnic cleansing carried out by the Ghulani authority through its security apparatus against the Christian community in Syria.

🔹 After the exposure of this compounded crime, “Abu Arab” fled with his family from his home in Mermarita to Al-Muzaynah following public disclosure of the incident.