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\nBLOODSHED IN BAB QEBLI: PORTRAIT FROM SYRIA’S VIOLENT \n2 August 2011\n<\/p>\n \nShortly after breakfast, Khaled al-Hamedh left his home to \nHe never came home.\n<\/p>\n \nSeveral hours later, family members laid him to rest in the \nAs the 21-year-old construction worker walked out into \nThe scene was by now all-too-familiar in cities across \nKhaled had himself finished military service in January, a \n“All the pharmacies had closed because of the security \nHe never made it to the hospital.\n<\/p>\n \n“Several minutes after he had left home, the sound of \nBystanders would later recount to them how Khaled died.\n<\/p>\n \n“He was shot in the back while attempting to cross over to \n“He fell on the ground but nobody was able to take him away \nOnly when the tanks had pulled away could the bystanders \n“Khaled’s friends called his father and informed him that \n“They did not want to shock him straight away. He rushed to \nBefore Khaled was buried, his body was brought home so his \nThough his body had been crushed, his face was untouched, \n“He was innocent,” the eyewitness said.\n<\/p>\n \n“He did nothing wrong and harmed nobody. He was very polite \nOn Sunday afternoon, Khaled was buried along with two other \nYesterday, 10 more people were reportedly killed, including \nThe military continued their attack on Hama unabated.\n<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \nShortly after breakfast, Khaled al-Hamedh left his home to
\nCRACKDOWN ON HAMA<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\nbuy medicine for his four-year-old brother, who had a fever.\n<\/p>\n
\ngarden of nearby al-Serjawi mosque, a bullet wound in his back and his body
\ncrushed by a tank.\n<\/p>\n
\nHama’s Bab Qebli neighbourhood on Sunday morning, Syrian security forces were
\nencroaching on the city with tanks, firing into residential areas.\n<\/p>\n
\nSyria, as the authorities continued to try to put down months of mainly
\npeaceful protests calling for government reform.\n<\/p>\n
\nfew months before he was faced with tanks on the streets of his hometown.\n<\/p>\n
\noperation, so Khaled set out on foot for al-Hikmeh hospital on the city’s main
\nstreet, a five-minute walk away,” an eyewitness told Amnesty International.\n<\/p>\n
\nshooting broke out. Family members rushed out behind him, but they returned
\nhome in fear when they saw the tanks moving along the main street,” the
\neyewitness said.\n<\/p>\n
\nthe hospital,” they said.\n<\/p>\n
\nfrom the street as the tanks were near by. That is when an army tank
\ndeliberately crushed his body repeatedly.”\n<\/p>\n
\napproach and take Khaled’s body to the hospital.\n<\/p>\n
\nhis son was injured,” the eyewitness said.\n<\/p>\n
\nthe hospital looking for Khaled, but could not find him among the injured. He
\nfound his corpse in the fridge.” <\/span>\n<\/p>\n
\nfamily could say goodbye.\n<\/p>\n
\nbelying the violent death he had suffered.\n<\/p>\n
\nand sweet.”\n<\/p>\n
\nmen in the garden of al-Serjawi mosque. Because the clashes continued, the
\nmourners could not get to the cemetery outside the city to bury their loved
\nones, and the graves had to be dug in a hurry to avoid intense shooting.\n<\/p>\n
\na 17-year-old woman who was buried in the same plot, after being shot in her
\nhome. Locals said she was a newly-wed and had a child.\n<\/p>\n
\nbuy medicine for his four-year-old brother, who had a fever.He never came home. Several hours later, family members laid him to rest in the
\ngarden of nearby al-Serjawi mosque, a bullet wound in his back and his body
\ncrushed by a tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}