{"id":88369,"date":"2022-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/13093\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T21:00:00","slug":"13093","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/13093","title":{"rendered":"AlTadhamun Massacre\u201d\u00a6A Reminder of the War Crimes Committed against Palestinian Refugees in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Palestinian refugee families continue to live in perpetual fear over the condition and whereabouts of their forcibly-disappeared relatives after the Guardian published an investigation with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria&#8217;s capital Damascus, in April 2013, and claiming the lives of 41 people, including Palestinian refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Three Palestinian refugees&#8211;Wasim Omar Seyam, Sa&#8217;id Ahmad Khatab, Abd Luay AlKubra, residents of Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus\u201d\u201dwere identified in the footage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Tadamon is a suburb south of Damascus. It was there that groups of civilians were rounded up, sent towards an execution pit, and shot dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The British newspaper reported that the mass grave contained at least 41 bodies following the massacre. The bodies were then doused with fuel and set alight. In the video footage, soldiers could be heard laughing. The massacre took place just a few miles from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s seat of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The footage is one of the most indictable videos from the whole Syrian conflict and gives a glimpse into a previously untold part of the eleven-year war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">The video is a reminder of the so-called \u201cMig Massacre\u201d\u009d, also known as \u201cAbdul Kader AlHusaini massacre\u201d\u009d, in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees, in Damascus. At the time of the attack, the mosque served as a shelter for hundreds of families who fled the regime strikes on the camp. Dozens of civilians, including children and women, were killed in the massacre. The event marked the largest mass exodus from Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. Only a handful of families have regained access to the camp, after the government forces recaptured the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">A few years ago, some 1,400 people were forced to leave AlSayeda Zeinab Camp for Palestinian refugees before they were horrendously massacred in cold-blood. Women were also raped and victims&#8217; bodies burned down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Last week, chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Paulo Pinheiro has asserted that detention in Syria is equivalent to disappearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Pinheiro stressed that the futures of tens of thousands of civilians are unknown, most of whom have been in the regime&#8217;s prisons for ten years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">He explained that predictions indicate that most detainees have been executed and buried in mass graves, and others subjected to torture and ill-treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman; font-size:14pt\">Pinheiro added that being arrested in Syria today is tantamount to disappearing and urged the need to establish an independent mechanism with international authorities to investigate the issue of disappeared civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian refugee families continue to live in perpetual fear over the condition and whereabouts of their forcibly-disappeared relatives after the Guardian published an investigation with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria&#8217;s capital Damascus, in April 2013, and claiming the lives of 41 people, including Palestinian refugees. 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