BEIRUT – Angry residents from an Alawite-populated quarter of Syria's Homs have staged a number of demonstrations to protest against security lapses as well as corrupt officials following a series of deadly explosions in the city's Zahraa district.

Protesters began hitting the streets of Zahraa on Tuesday evening after twin bombings left over two dozen people dead in the central Homs neighborhood, the 19th such explosion to rock the Alawite quarter.

Hours after the first demonstrations kicked off, a popular pro-Assad Facebook page based in Homs published a statement enumerating a series of demands and complaints from Homs residents.

Homs residents hold a demonstration hours after twin blasts in the Zahraa district. (Facebook/Central Region News Network-Homs)

The aggrieved citizens started off with a demand for summary executions of anyone caught transporting explosives, before moving on to rail against regime security measures regarding not only terrorism but also perceived rampant corruption among state officials.

"Every official should be held to account for their work and [offending] officials should always appear on television to face the people," said the statement published by the Facebook page Central Region News Network-Homs.

"Legal action must be taken against corrupt individuals, whether they are military or civil [personalities], even if they [occupy] the highest seat in the city," the pro-Assad page said in its unusually critical broadside of the Syrian regime.

The statement called for a new set of stringent security measures to crack down on lawlessness in Homs and "clean out the city, meter-by-meter."

"A force must be formed to impose security and [ensure that] everyone who falls short is held to account because the law is absent, the judiciary is asleep and everyone is taking advantage of this situation to fill their bellies," it added.

"Homs needs a faithful man, not one with the mentality of a thief. "

Zahraa residents burn tires Wednesday night. (Facebook/Central Region News Network-Homs)

The protests continued on Wednesday night as well, with pictures on social media showing Zahraa residents gathering to burn tires and chant for their demands.

In one video released from the demonstrations, a Homs protester says bluntly, "we are against the governor and the security committee because they're all liars."

However, he made sure to stress that the demonstration was being held in support of "Bashar al-Assad and the blood of the martyrs who fell here."

After the protester had spoken the crowd all chanted the familiar slogan: "We sacrifice our blood and our souls for you o Bashar. "

A child holds a poster saying, "The people want the downfall of the governor." (Facebook/Central Region News Network-Homs)

Another sit-in was also held on Thursday morning, with pictures showing Zahraa residents holding placards accusing the security committees of corruption and even going so far as calling for the resignation of the Homs governor.

Not all Assad supporters in Homs, however, supported the demonstrations in the violence-stricken Zahraa district.

The Homs News Network Facebook page issued a vitriolic response to the sit-in, saying it was a "means to profit for a bunch of blood profiteers."

"Certain [people] have called for a sit in, got people out [on the street] and portrayed themselves as an active body that has influence over public opinion so that in a couple of days they can go and seek profit from the official bodies," the author of the post wrote.

Anger has mounted among Alawites and other supporters of President Bashar al-Assad over the criminality and impunity of militias in the regime's coastal heartland.

In September 2015, residents of the Tartous town of Dreikish blasted a local militia headed by a man named Ahmad al-Houry and called for the regime to strike it with an "iron fist" after the militiamen killed two police officers.

Protests also erupted in Latakia after Suleiman al-Assad—a second cousin of the Syrian president—gunned down a Syrian air force officer in the city in early August 2015.

These demonstrations came on the heels of a long series of incidents of local pro-regime militias taking the law into their own hands amid lawlessness in Syria's mainly Alawite-populated coastal region, which has been hit by waves of car thefts and kidnappings.

On June 22, 2015, members of a local NDF militia opened fire on residents of the Tartous town of Safita, which is populated by a nearly equal mix of Greek Orthodox and Alawites approximately 20 kilometers southeast of Tartous.

A pro-regime Facebook page covering news in the town roundly condemned the incident and called for a government crackdown.

"We call on the competent authorities to put an end to this chaos which is increasing day after day," a post on the pro-regime Safita News Network read.

The outlet demanded that the government "restrict [weapons] to the army and the armed forces alone."​