The Guardian: Newly revealed video shows a 'hidden war crime' in Syria
In the video, groups of civilians were arrested, blindfolded and handcuffed, and told to run to the execution pit, unaware they were about to be shot dead
April 27, 2022, 11:41 am

The Guardian: Newly revealed video shows a 'hidden war crime' in Syria

A member of the Syrian intelligence forces named "A.Y" carries out mass executions in the Al-Tadamon neighborhood

A new video, published Wednesday (Apr 27) by The Guardian newspaper, showed a member of the Syrian intelligence forces named "A.Y" carried out mass executions in the Al-Tadamon neighborhood, south of the capital, Damascus. It also showed that members of the Syrian regime forces piled bodies on top of each other and burned them.

The Guardian said: "This is the story of a war crime by one of the Syrian regime’s most notorious enforcers, branch 227 of the country's military intelligence service."

Newly revealed footage, showed a massacre committed in the southern suburbs of Damascus in April 2013, in which groups of civilians were arrested, blindfolded and handcuffed, and told to run to the execution pit, unaware they were about to be shot dead.

A hidden war crime: footage sheds light on horrors of war in Syria – video explainer https://t.co/3PBRS8Dx67
— The Guardian (@guardian) April 27, 2022

The Guardian added: "When the killings were over, at least 41 men lay dead in the mass grave in Tadamon, their murderers pouring fuel on their remains and igniting them, laughing as they covered up a war crime just several miles from Bashar al-Assad's seat of power."

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This graphic footage is "one of the most indictable videos from the whole Syrian conflict" and “gives us a glimpse into a previously untold part of the 10-year war”, as the Guardian’s Martin Chulov explains.

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