various human rights organizations have criticized the regime for deliberately launching large-scale attacks on christian churches and arresting christian citizens. in april 2013, yohanna ibrahim, archbishop of syrian orthodox church in aleppo, condemned the syrian military for launching indiscriminate attacks of syrian cities and civilian areas; blaming the ba'athist government for triggering the emigration of a third of syrian christians. a week after issuing the statement, the archbishop got abducted and has remained forcibly disappeared, allegedly on the orders of the assad regime. ba'athist regime has also passed a discriminatory military conscription law which enables government authorities to seize properties of syrians and their families accused of draft evasion. the law disproportionately targets sunni and christian families across syria, who constitute the vast majority of the syrian refugee population.
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