{"id":97069,"date":"2022-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/13348\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T21:00:00","slug":"13348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/13348","title":{"rendered":"Syria Newspaper Calls for Releasing Clips of Regime Massacre in Tadhamun"},"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\">Zaman AlWasl newspaper has called on Syrian nationals and Palestinian refugees who caught sight of one of their relatives or acquaintances in the leaked footage of the Tadhamun massacre, committed by the Syrian regime, to write to the newspaper.<\/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\">Zaman AlWasl said it has been exerting pressure on NIOD Institute to release the remaining 25 clips of 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\">It accused NIOD and Amsterdam University of withholding the video which holds the Syrian regime responsible for the crime.<\/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The daily added that the withdrawn clips identify 250 victims that were horrifically massacred by the Syrian regime.<\/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\">In late April this year, 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 three 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\">The three refugees are Wasim Omar Seyam, Sa&#8217;id Ahmad Khatab, Abd Luay AlKubra, residents of Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus.<\/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\">Informed sources told AGPS that Wasim Seyam, born in 1980 and a graduate of the Teacher Training Institute in Damascus, was arrested in 2013 by Syrian security forces deployed on Nisreen Street, while on his way out of Yarmouk Camp to fetch flour for his starved family.<\/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\">Sa&#8217;id, also a resident of Yarmouk Camp, is the grandson of Sai&#8217;d Khattab, who was killed in Ein Zaytoun massacre along 79 residents of the village, by Zionist militias.<\/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 piece published by the Guardian was called \u201cMassacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal,\u201dand written by Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov.<\/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.<\/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\">In the video footage, soldiers could be heard laughing.<\/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 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 was recorded by a new recruit to a loyalist militia, who leaked it first to an opposition activist in France and then to two researchers: Annsar Shahhoud and Prof. Ugur Umit Ungor of the University of Amsterdam&#8217;s Holocaust and Genocide Center.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaman AlWasl newspaper has called on Syrian nationals and Palestinian refugees who caught sight of one of their relatives or acquaintances in the leaked footage of the Tadhamun massacre, committed by the Syrian regime, to write to the newspaper. 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