13 year old tortured by the Syrian Government...VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO

[sperbonzo]

Al-Khatib was captured by Syrian security forces on April 29 and disappeared off the face of the earth for more than a month afterwards. According to the New York Times, his corpse was returned to his family several days ago on the condition that they did not discuss the mutilation and signs of torture. He is believed by his family to have died on May 25.

Shortly after al-Khatib's corpse was returned, a video appeared on YouTube detailing the condition of the child and clearly showing signs of extensive torture. A narrator, apparently the child's father, pointed out the child's wounds in halting classical Arabic with the assistance of at least one other individual wearing plastic gloves to handle the corpse.

The child's father, Ali al-Khatib, disappeared into government custody shortly after the video appeared on YouTube. He has not been seen since.

According to Al Jazeera's Hugh Macleod and Annasofie Flamand, the older al-Khatib was stifled in his attempts to press charges before he made the video:

Hamza's father, Ali al-Khateeb, wanted to press charges against the army and security forces, said Hamza's cousin. Instead, Ali and his wife were visited by the secret police and threatened. "They said: 'Enough of what has happened because of you already. You know what would happen if we heard you had spoken to the media,'" said Hamza's mother, clearly terrified as she spoke to the local activist, refusing to give further details on the circumstances of her son's arrest or death.

In a manner reminiscent of the footage of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan's death that went viral worldwide in 2009, YouTube clips and Facebook postings on al-Khatib's sufferings are quickly winding their way across the Arab-language internet. YouTube took down the original al-Khatib video for a short period of time; during those hours, at least five alternate versions of the video--containing the same raw footage and images but with different audio and different editing--began to make their way onto social media sites.

HORRIBLY GRAPHIC..... DO NOT WATCH AND THEN POST ABOUT HOW IT WAS TOO GRAPHIC TO PUT HERE.


Syria's government has already began damage control for the al-Khatib video. The official Syrian Arab News Agency released a long English-language feature claiming that al-Khatib's father absolved Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of all crimes, called him “gentle and kind” and then claimed the boy's injuries were the result of being shot by anti-government protesters. As for the rest of al-Khatib's extensive injuries that weren't bullet wounds? According to the official Syrian party line, the burn marks, severed penis, broken kneecaps, and snapped neck simply didn't exist.

Al-Khatib's injuries are consistent with a Human Rights Watch report on torture methods by Syrian security and intelligence services that was issued in April 2011.


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[u-Bob]

[_Richard_]

sleep well

[Phoenix]

im not watching that...makes me sick to think of who could do that to a 13 year old boy

[Redrob]

Sucks to be Syrian right now.

[PornoStar69]

Problem reaction solution

syrian Government had nothing to do with this. period - its just another excuse to invade.

[dazzling]

The United States bombs and kills and murders children all the time. Will the same people who condemn this also condemn the United States? Of course not. These people always look the other way when the United States murders children. Much like they looked the other way during the Vietnam war when American soldiers RAPED CHILDREN.

[Just Alex]

where's gfy's spamer ubber jew thedemon?

[ottopottomouse]

Why's he covered on bits of onion - were they going to cook him?

[TurboAngel]

I'm not going to watch.

[brassmonkey]

wrong thread

[Babaganoosh]

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=950962

8. Posting images of death, dismemberment, or animal cruelty will not be permitted and will be removed. Violation will result in a banning. We don't want to see that shit here!

Now can we finally ban this jerkwad who wants to discuss nothing but politics and religion? Please?

[Scott McD]

I'll pass on this one...

[topnotch, standup guy]

Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=950962

8. Posting images of death, dismemberment, or animal cruelty will not be permitted and will be removed. Violation will result in a banning. We don't want to see that shit here!

Now can we finally ban this jerkwad who wants to discuss nothing but politics and religion? Please?

Hey crybaby, that link was posted with a very clear and explicit warning.
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[moeloubani]

Israel and the United States are the two biggest torturers on the planet. I would never believe something like this happened at the hands of the Syrian government in an official sense, maybe some rogue soldier but never a government theory.

The fact that Michael Sperber, a known liar, posted this makes it even harder to believe.

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1023437

You ready to step up Michael or are you just going to keep running away?

[topnotch, standup guy]

Originally Posted by dazzling

The United States bombs and kills and murders children all the time blah, blah, blah.

Why don't you sit down and give your act a rest.

It sure as hell needs one.

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[sperbonzo]

Originally Posted by moeloubani

Israel and the United States are the two biggest torturers on the planet. I would never believe something like this happened at the hands of the Syrian government in an official sense, maybe some rogue soldier but never a government theory.

The fact that Michael Sperber, a known liar, posted this makes it even harder to believe.

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1023437

You ready to step up Michael or are you just going to keep running away?

Like I said to you in another thread...

I told you if you were interested in what I had discussed with my rabbi you could contact me. I actually took the time to learn more about the subject we were discussing rather than relying on whatever website suits one's already existing viewpoint. If you were interested in actually discussing something like an adult and perhaps learning something you would have done so. Why not just contact me like a grown up adult? You obviously are only interested in pushing an agenda, and have no interest in growing as a person.

My contact info is right out in the open on my sig. I'm not hiding in any way. What should I be afraid of? Being called names on a forum? If that constitutes something to be afraid of in your world, than you must live in a wonderful place with zero to worry about, so congrats on that at least.

In the meantime your attempts to insult me and my family only demean yourself IMO, and make you simply look hateful and childish. Why not just give it up and talk like a real person instead?


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I still stand by that.

[2intense]

[moeloubani]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Like I said to you in another thread...

I told you if you were interested in what I had discussed with my rabbi you could contact me. I actually took the time to learn more about the subject we were discussing rather than relying on whatever website suits one's already existing viewpoint. If you were interested in actually discussing something like an adult and perhaps learning something you would have done so. Why not just contact me like a grown up adult? You obviously are only interested in pushing an agenda, and have no interest in growing as a person.

My contact info is right out in the open on my sig. I'm not hiding in any way. What should I be afraid of? Being called names on a forum? If that constitutes something to be afraid of in your world, than you must live in a wonderful place with zero to worry about, so congrats on that at least.

In the meantime your attempts to insult me and my family only demean yourself IMO, and make you simply look hateful and childish. Why not just give it up and talk like a real person instead?


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I still stand by that.

LOL Really?? Ok here I am contacting you. Here I am saying post what your Rabbi told you. I've posted it before, don't pretend like you haven't read it weeks ago when I first told you to post what your Rabbi told you.

If you have something to hide by not posting it publicly that's your problem. If I emailed you I would copy and paste those emails here for everyone to see anyways.

What are you so scared of? Are you scared I'll humiliate you yet again publicly? Go ahead, stop LYING and pretending like I didn't contact you.

I did, and I'm doing it right now again.

Contact.

Post what your Rabbi said.

Your attempts at pretending you're something that you aren't and then calling someone out on it are pathetic. Here I am Michael. You called me out and here I am.

You going to do something about it or are you going to continue running away like a scared little bitch?

[Barry-xlovecam]

Nothing new in Syria ...

Just preserving the benevolent dictatorship ...



Hama massacre

The Hama massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حماة‎) occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian army, under the orders of the president of Syria Hafez al-Assad, conducted a scorched earth policy against the town of Hama in order to quell a revolt by the Sunni Muslim community against the regime of al-Assad.[1] The Hama massacre, personally conducted by president Assad's younger brother, Rifaat al-Assad, effectively ended the campaign begun in 1976 by Sunni Islamic groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, against Assad's regime, whose leaders were disproportionately from president Assad's own Alawite sect.

Initial diplomatic reports from western countries stated that only 1000 were killed.[2][3] Subsequent estimates vary, with the lower estimates claiming that at least 10,000 Syrian citizens were killed,[4] the majority civilians, while others put the number at 20,000 (Robert Fisk),[1] or 40,000 (Syrian Human Rights Committee).[5][6] About 1,000 Syrian soldiers were killed during the operation and large parts of the old city were destroyed. Alongside events like the Black September massacre in Jordan, the attack has been described as among "the single deadliest acts by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East".[7] The vast majority of the victims were civilians.[8]

According to Syrian media, anti-government rebels initiated the fighting, who "pounced on our comrades while sleeping in their homes and killed whomever they could kill of women and children, mutilating the bodies of the martyrs in the streets, driven, like mad dogs, by their black hatred." Security forces then "rose to confront these crimes" and "taught the murderers a lesson that has snuffed out their breath" [9]

[ffnK.O.]

OOooo ROUND 1 *ding*

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by moeloubani

Israel and the United States are the two biggest torturers on the planet.

the truth shall set you free

[Harmon]

That guy has some big fucking nipples.

[RyuLion]

I"m not going to watch that because I don't need too.