Many peaceful demonstrations occurred in Kernaz with the beginging of the Syrian Revolution, especially between Juin 2011 and September 2012, oppsition rebels have been completely controlled the city until the beginning of Janauary 2012, when Syrian Army and the supported miliants surrounded the city from the west and the south, most of the civilians fled just few hours before the attack, the opposition rebels including FSA members holed up in the town, the military clashes continued for the 3 following weeks.
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The battle ended by completely destruction of the town, and withdrawal of opposition forces, the regime forces entered the city and expropriated it in full, and its affiliated militias looted the property of the people systematically. more than 250 people -militants and civilians- dead in the town of Karnaz and its neighboring villages,[1] some of civilians have been killed under torture, almost all the buildings and facilities have been completely destroyed, and the displacement of the majority of the population, who have fled to refugee camps in Turkey.
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