The crowd surged forward, thousands cheering, waving and jostling their way around Damascus’ Al Ashmar Square, all positioning themselves for the best view of a hanging. People in Tadamon have a nickname for the toothbrush-mustached henchman: “Syria’s Hitler.” “This man, he and his people, they were animals,” said Majed Shaaban, 32, who works for a cleaning services company. “If he …
Mass graves have reportedly been unearthed in Syria with human remains found in the streets of Damascus as the horrific crimes of Assad's regime are laid bare. The Tadamon district within the Syrian capital has been spotted littered with bones after what residents and human rights groups described as years of killings there under the rule of president Bashar al-Assad. …
Tadamon became infamous after a video emerged in 2022 showing a man in military fatigues leading unarmed, blindfolded men towards a large ditch, telling them to run and shooting them at point-blank range as they neared the edge or after they fell in A man checks a tunnel found under a mosque in Tadamon district, which is littered with bones …
Published : Jun 06, 2022 15:50 IST In late April 2022, a Syrian defector leaked a video of the Tadamon massacre. “My father was the first to recognize him,” says Tasnim Siyam, Waseem’s sister, adding that her father recognized his son by his gait. Working with his colleague Annsar Shahhoud, the two were able to identify the two killers in …
BEIRUT — For years, the Siyam family clung to hope they would one day be reunited with their son Wassim, who they believed was being held in a Syrian government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago. “It shocked us to our core,” Siham Siyam said of the gruesome video, which was taken in 2013 …
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