Shelling.. invasion.. massacre.. the systematic killings of the Syrian regime: (Massacre in Yelda town, rural Damascus)
a Documentation and condemnation of the massacre in Yelda, rural Damascus. Which is an atrocious, Human Rights breaching crime.
Documented by the Syrian network for human rights
Date of the incident: 13-08-2012
The town of yelda is situated in rural Damascus, specifically in Al Ghouta. It’s surrounded by the town of Hajira from the south, by Bebla from the east, from the north by Al Zahira and by Al Yarmouk camps from the west. Its population is more than 150 thousand.
On Sunday, 05-08-2012, a large number of Assad’s army surrounded Yelda town with tanks and armoured vehicles, who started shooting and shelling randomly at the town for a period of 7 days causing a large number of injuries and killing a few number of people, as well as causing the destruction of residential buildings. As in all massacres, invasion of the town with tanks followed; forces stormed in on the Sunday(12-08-2012) and Monday(13-08-2012) of that week.
These operations of invasion and mass executions are systematic killing methods that are continuously committed by the government and the Syrian regime with an aim to spread fear and horror in a certain town and then moving on to another town or place and commit the same crimes against humanity.
One of the residents of the town told us that on that Tuesday, 4 of the young men who ran away from the town returned in order to retrieve the bodies of the victims from the massacre, infront of al shafi’i mosque, but upon arriving there was a car filled with Assad’s forces who began shooting at them and killed one of them. The rest managed to flee with the help of one of the cars that was present during this incident. This cost the driver his life as he was executed after being chased and caught.
This massacre resulted in the deaths of 67 civilians from the town, including a few members of the free Syrian army, who we were unable to identify and document.
The Syrian network for human rights managed to identify and document 44 names after speaking to their families and relatives and through speaking with their friends and through activists. 23 bodies were not identified and thus their names and footage could not be documented due to the deformity of their bodies. It came to our attention that a number of them held Palestinian citizenship, and were from Al Almasri family who resided in yelda.
1. Omar Al Baqa’i
2. Hassan AlAasheq
3. Ali AlMasri
4. Adnan AlBaqa’I
5. Mustafa Younus
6. Osama Abu Omar
7. Ibrahim Tyara
8. Saleh Muslim Tyara
9. Mahmoud Said (Abu Haitham)
10. Nour Qasem Sulaiman
11. Ahmad AlIsh
12. Mohammad AlIsh
13. Wael M’arawy (Abu Radwan)
14. Omran Ahmad AlArabi
15. Mohammad Ahmad Saleh
16. Nidal Ammar Bakkour
17. Mohammad Ahmad Karman
18. Mohammad Habash
19. Mahmoud Musa – executed by the Syrian Army
20. Musa Musa – executed by the Syrian Army
21. Isa Musa – executed by the Syrian Army
22. Mamdouh Musa – executed by the Syrian Army
23. Hamdi Musa – executed by the Syrian Army
24. Salem Musa – executed by the Syrian Army
25. Adnan Musa – executed by the Syrian Army
26. Jamal Sbenati – executed by the Syrian Army
27. Yasser Mustafa Naji – executed by the Syrian Army
28. Tayara (mentally disabled) – executed by the Syrian Army
29. Ahmad AlMajdalaqi – executed by the Syrian Army
30. AbdulKarim Yunous
31. Ibrahim AlSaidi – executed by the Syrian Army
32. AbdulSalam Sbetani (Abu Adnan) – executed by the Syrian Army
33. Muhammad AlBiqa’i (Abu Ali) – executed by the Syrian Army
34. Mohammad Fawaz Ismail – executed by the Syrian Army
35. Imad ALDabah – executed by the Syrian Army
36. Jawdat AlJundi ( famous policeman) – executed by the Syrian Army
37. Abu Mohammad AlShami – executed by the Syrian Army
38. Hisham AlMasri
39. Khalil Sbetani (Abu AlFoz)
40. Defected soldier Basel Sa’ad ( Abu Hazem)
41. Defected soldier Mohammad Ammar Munir AlMasri (Abu Anas)
42. Khaled AlKhadrawi
43. Mahmoud AlBiqa’i
44. Yahya Hammoud
The videos which document 23 martyrs which the Syrian network for human rights was not able to obtain the names of, we were also unable to make a visit to the site of massacre and dissect the bodies due to the military siege on the area and the difficulty to reach the town.
Attachments
Firstly the victims and injuries:
Victim Yasser Mustafa Najib:
Mustafa Yunous who was shot by a sniper near Saif Mosque:
Osama Abu Omar who was shot by a sniper and killed.
Pictures and videos of Mohammad Habash who was shot by a sniper:
Saleh Muslim Tyara
Jawdat AlJundi who was killed in a summer execution in his home:
Mahmoud Sa’ad (Abu Haitham) whose body was recovered from under the rubble
Khali Sbetani (Abu AlFoz)
? Adnan AlBiqa’i who was killed in a summary execution
A few of the victims of summary execution were buried and their tombs were attacked
Mohammad Ammar Munir AlMasri
Defected soldier Mohammad Ahmad Karman
Khaled Khadrawi
Ibrahim AlSaidi, a Syrian Palestinian teacher who lived in AlMagharba neighbourhood in AlYarmouk camp, he was killed in a summary execution
Mustafa Naji who was killed as he was trying to pull out one of the bodies
Abdul Salam Sbetani
Wael M’arawi (Abu Radwan)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=405248439540405&set=a.296922977039619.70811.28
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Mohammad AlIsh, 36 years old, Killed in a summary execution in his home
Ahmad AlIsh, 16 years old
Unidentified victims:
corpses of some of the victims
secondly: the destruction which was caused by the heavy shelling of the area:
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