Can the new Syria keep it together? Massacres prompt fears of return to civil war

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Three months on, could Syria slide back into civil war?In the Alawite bastion of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, the bloodiest week in years with attacks and revenge killings of civilians that the new masters of Damascus are scrambling to contain. Why did the Mediterreanean coast region erupt? What triggered it?