As the world stands silent, massacres escalate in Syria. A detailed report on the massacre of Mazra’at al-Qubeir:
Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) & Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS) report on the massacre of Mazra’at al-Qubeir in Hama 07-06-2012.
The Syrian regime’s security forces and Shabeehas, pro-regime militias affiliated to security forces, have perpetrated a horrific massacre in Mazra’at al-Qubeir 20 km to the west of Hama city, 2 km to the south of Ma’arzaf. Seventy eight victims including women and children were killed. Tanks leveled half of the houses almost to complete destruction which is visible from afar for any visitor.
Some of SHNR & DCHRS members have met activists in the area, victims’ relatives and survivors from the massacre. The UN and international investigations committees can contact them. They all affirmed that the Syrian regime’s army raided many villages in western Rural Hama on Wednesday 06-06-2012. The Syrian regime cut off all means of communications, internet, power, and water in the area so that they can perpetrate the massacre in silence. The area was completely besieged by tanks and checkpoints, which explains the delay in reporting and documenting the massacre and the victims. The regime’s army forces raided the village of Jreijis and burned down many houses there. Then they raided the village of Ma’arzaf and assaulted the locals. Around 01:00 pm, the regime’s army tanks started shelling the village of al-Qubeir. Then they raided it by buses full of Shabeehas who come from the village of Aseelah and other villages loyal to the regime. All these loyalist villages are neighbouring villages to the village of Mazra’at al-Qubeir which was exactly the case in al-Houla massacre in Homs as well. They opened fire randomly on the residents of the village of Mazra’at al-Qubeir, including men, women and children, and they led men outside the house and slaughtered many of them by knives. They also burned more than 21 bodies after killing them to obscure evidence of the crime. They abducted 37 bodies so that the international observers cannot see them in order not to make the same mistake they have made in al-Houla massacre.
It is worth mentioning that the village of al-Qubeir is administratively affiliated to the town of Ma’arzaf with is affiliated to Mhardeh region. The village consists of about 20 houses, and most of the residents are relatives from the same family.
One of the most painful scenes is the burned bodies of a woman embracing her two children all of whom were burned to death due to shelling.
Relatives of the victims confirmed 60 names of the victims. Most of whom are from one family, including 10 women and 9 children. Search for survivors and attempts to confirm the names of the rest of the victims is still ongoing, but the area is still fully besieged amid communications blackout and power cut.
Confirmed and documented names of the victims who fell to the massacre of Mazra’at al-Qubeir:
– Muhammad Hasan Ulwan, 32 years.
– Salah Jamil Ulwan
– Muhammad Hassan Ulwan
– Mahdi Ahmad Ulwan
– Sari Ali al-Hamdou
– Imad Ismael Ulwan
– Muhammad Salah Ulwan
– Salah Jamil Ulwan
– Name is not confirmed yet
– Name is not confirmed yet
– Ibrahim al-Yatim, 4 year-old child
– Ibrahim al-Yatim, 9 year-old child
– Ahmad Ali al-Yatim, 5 year-old child
– Ayman Ahmad al-Yatim
– Jassem al-Yatim
– Khalid Husein al-Yatim
– Ali Husein al-Yatim
– Faris Husein al-Yatim
– Muhammad Husein al-Yatim
– Husein al-Yatim
– Hamza Ahmad al-Yatim, 1 year old infant.
– Ayman Hamoud al-Yatim
– Muhammad Hammoud al-Yatim
– Hamoud Kastal al-Yatim, 68 years old,
– Hamida al-Abdullah
– Rasheed al-Yatim
– Ryadh al-Yatim
– Izzou Ahmad al-Yatim
– Ali Ahmad al-Yatim, 9 years old kid,
– Kheirou Ahmad al-Yatim
– Rasheed Kheirou al-Yatim
– Ali Kheirou al-Yatim
– Muhammad Kheirou al-Yatim
– Umar Ahmad al-Yatim, 3 years old kid,
– Awad Ahmad al-Yatim
– Aukeh Ahmad al-Yatim
– Fteim Ahmad al-Yatim
– Faisal al-Yatim
– Muhammad Ahmad al-Yatim, 9 years old.
– Muhammad Ahmad al-Yatim
– Muhammad al-Yatim
– Muhammad Rasheed al-Yatim
– Muhammad Shihadeh al-Yatim
– Muhammad Ulwan
– Maryam Ahmad al-Yatim
– Mansour al-Yatim
– Manfya Stief
– Muna al-Yatim, infant girl
– Noufal al-Yatim
– Rose al-Yatim
– Salloum Hassan al-Yatim
– Samra al-Yatim
– Sabrya al-Yatim
– Abdullah al-Yatim
– Khalid al-Yatim
– Noufa al-Yatim
– Husein al-Faris
– Khalid al-Faris
– Faisal al-Faris
– Mansour al-Faris
Hama- Ma’arzaf- Mazra’at al-Qubeir- the kids who have been slain by regime’s forces in al-Qubeir massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qaVdM8Ot-o
This video documents the massacre perpetrated by the Syrian regime’s forces in the village of Mazra’at al-Qubeir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y77I_lTfwc
SNHR & DCHRS strongly condemn this scarcely-matched massacre which is amounts to a crime against humanity as well as all the massacres perpetrated by the Syrian regime against the Syrian people round the clock. SNHR & DCHRS hold the Syrian regime completely and directly responsible for all of those massacres and their implications and consequences. We call on the UN and the UN Security Council to take all necessary measures to protect the Syrian people and to fulfil their legal and moral responsibilities by accelerating the referral of all the individuals who committed these crimes to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
SNHR & DCHRS- Syria- al-Qubeir massacre videos
Hama- Al-Qubeir: a new video emerges. It has been recorded by locals after the regime’s army withdrawal, and it confirms by testimonies given by residents and by the size of destruction that the Syrian regime is complicit with the perpetration of this massacre.
Rural Hama: Children and women of al-Qubeir are burned and deformed by choppers at the hands of the regime’s beasts 06-06-2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y_PMz1jhMs
Rural Hama: Children and women of al-Qubeir are burned and deformed by choppers at the hands of the regime’s beasts 06-06-2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi6wWUqdg2Y
Rural Hama/al-Qubeir: this video shows the brutality of killing women and children by the regime 06-06-2012, 18+.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqfcLTmwEmo
Rural Hama- al-Qubeir: This video tells the story of the massacre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_aGgAlaUaw
SNHR & DCHRS- Syria- Testimony- Al-Qubeir Massacre
This is an interview conducted by an activist with a mother who lost her children and relatives to al-Qubeir massacre in Hama. Since she has survived the massacre, international observers and Arab and international investigation committees can contact her. She affirms that the Syrian regime’s army in cooperation with security forces Shabeehas have perpetrated this massacre which is a crime against humanity.
We call on the international community to take urgent and immediate measures to practice pressure on the Syrian regime to grant international investigations committees access to examine the circumstances of the massacre. The Syrian regime is obscuring evidence of the massacre by burning some bodies and abducting others. This explains why it has not given access to international observers to see the site of the massacre till now.
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Summary of the testimony given by this mother:
There were about 25 families in this village. When the regime’s forces and shabeehas came, we were inside our houses. They opened machinegun fire, blew up and shelled houses with residents inside. Moreover, they stabbed and slaughtered children by knives and choppers. Then they burned them. People say that shabeehas came from the neighbouring villages of Aseeleh, Twaini and Tal Skeen. They came by 3 buses and a tank. Only five or 6 people, including 3 men and 2 women, have survived the massacre. They slaughtered my children by knives. The message I want to send to the world is that the regime’s army and militias have slaughtered our men and children, and may God help us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX-cj5_7A0s