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“Children were also tortured, some to death. Two well-known cases are those of Thamir Al Sharee, aged 14, and Hamza Al Katheeb, aged 13, from the town of Sayda in the Dar’a governorate. They were seized and allegedly taken to an Air Force Intelligence facility in Damascus in April. They did not return home alive. The injuries described in the post-mortem report of Thamir Al Sharee are consistent with torture. A witness, himself a victim of torture, claimed to have seen Thamir Al Sharee on 3 May. The witness stated that “the boy was lying on the floor and was completely blue. He was bleeding profusely from his ear, eyes and nose. He was shouting and calling for his mother and father for help. He fainted after being hit with a rifle butt on the head.”
Testimonies were received from several men who stated they had been anally raped with batons and that they had witnessed the rape of boys. One man stated that he witnessed a 15-year-old boy being raped in front of his father. A 40-year-old man saw the rape of an 11-year-old boy by three security services officers. He stated: “I have never been so afraid in my whole life. And then they turned to me and said; you are next.” The interviewee was unable to continue his testimony. One 20-year-old university student told the commission that he was subjected to sexual violence in detention, adding that “if my father had been present and seen me, I would have had to commit suicide”. Another man confided while crying, “I don’t feel like a man any more”.
In cases documented by Human Rights Watch, at least 85 victims were described by witnesses as residents who did not take part in the fighting, including women and children. The report describes in detail several cases of mass executions of local residents, including the killing of at least 13 men at the Bilal mosque in Idlib on March 11, 2012; the execution of at least 25 men during a search and arrest operation in the Sultaniya neighborhood of Homs on March 3, 2012; and the killings of at least 47 people, mainly women and children, in the `Adwiyya, Karm al-Zaytoun and Refa`i neighborhoods of Homs on March 11-12, 2012.
In Jisr al-Shughur, security forces snipers were reported to have killed up to 25 mourners attending the 4 June funeral of Basel al-Masri and wounded many others, including a Red Crescent paramedic who was attending to an injured man.
A man detained in April in Banias said that he was held for three days without food or clean drinking water and that security forces beat him and others with rifle butts on the neck and shoulders, stripped and beat him with sticks and cables, and made him lick his own blood off the floor.
Amnesty International
The body of Tariq Ziad Abd al-Qadr, who was arrested on 29 April, was returned to his family in Homs in June bearing numerous injuries, according to video film taken at the time. There were apparent electricity burns on his neck and penis, other burns on his body, marks apparently caused by whipping, and stab wounds in his side. Some of his hair had been pulled out. A document apparently issued by the National Hospital attributed his death to a “shot in the chest” although no bullet wounds were evident.
I hoped you would verify reports from the Syrian Government before adopting them, so you could see the truth of the facts, noting that once we attended to the request of the observer mission to visit Al Tremseh the visit was, in fact, held on a date set by them, on 14/07/2012. What happened in the village of Al Tremseh near Hama, is that dozens of members of armed terrorist groups invaded the village and settled there, terrorizing the civilian residents and creating a command headquarters, weapons depots and places of torture of hostages, attacking more than one point of the security forces concentrated on the outskirts of the village, which required a response from the security forces at 5:00 in the morning of Thursday, 12/07/2012.
Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
Have you not considered that you may be the one who is brain washed.
Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by Ben81
Have you not considered that you may be the one who is brain washed.
I am quite clear in my OP that I believe that both side have committed crimes against humanity but I have used the most reliable sources I could find and to be perfectly honest with you there was so much stuff that I could have quoted that in the end I decided to make this thread much shorter than what it could have been.
If that is your opinion then go ahead but I am going to go with what the human rights watch, the UN and Amnesty international are telling me.
Not some bias Russian news outlet when Russia is clearly supporting the evil Al-Assad.
EDIT: this thread has nothing to do with Gaddafi or the NWO please do not derail this thread.
edit on 10-8-2012 by OtherSideOfTheCoin because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Ben81
its easy when you have the corrupted media spreading disinfo
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Originally posted by Ben81
its easy when you have the corrupted media spreading disinfo
If Assad is such a great guy, why are his own people escaping from him?
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Originally posted by Ben81
its easy when you have the corrupted media spreading disinfo
If Assad is such a great guy, why are his own people escaping from him?
While your at it why don't you compair the atrocities committed by the American regime.. seams your hellbent on demonizing Assad and sidestepping the facts,and obviously in support of he illegal overthrow of Syria,the foreign funded mercenaries are not on a humanitarian mission.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
If Assad is such a great guy, why are his own people escaping from him?
Torture, Rape and Murder in Assad’s Syria.
Originally posted by SkipperJohn
Torture, Rape and Murder in Assad’s Syria.
I can say the same thing about America.