Tadamon massacre’s perpetrator serving in Syria military base – The Guardian
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A Syrian officer involved in committing over a dozen mass killings in the Tadamon massacre is still serving in a military base outside the Syrian capital Damascus, The Guardian revealed on Friday.
In a report by The Guardian, based on testimony of a friend of Amjad Yousef, a major in one of Syria’s most feared Military Intelligence Branch 227, said the latter “is still working on a military base outside Damascus.”
In video footage verified by The Guardian in a report published in April, members of Syrian Military Intelligence Branch 227 were shown firing at blindfolded, unarmed civilians in Tadamon, a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The video shows 41 people being murdered by an intelligence officer.
Yousef’s friend revealed to The Guardian that the officer “is operating from the Kafr Sousa base, where he has been for most of the past six months,” after the report was publicized.
The friend also disclosed Yousef’s confessions to a mutual friend for committing many killings.
The friend told the news website, “I saw him take women from a bread queue one morning. They were innocent. They had done nothing. They were either raped, or killed. Nothing less.”
Yousef was shown in an unpublicized video, The Guardian saw, shooting six women near a “death pit” in the suburb and then set the bodies on fire with the aim to hid “evidence of the war crime,” according to the report.
The friend went further, saying in the Tadamon more than ten massacres were carried out against Sunni people “This was sectarian cleansing.”
The issue of the Tadamon urged France, Germany and Netherlands to initiate investigations based on laws of universal jurisdiction and track perpetrators who may have fled to Europe.
The report estimated the number of victims of the “most shocking acts of the civil war – the Tadamon massacre” at about 350 at hands of the Military Intelligence Branch 227 in the country.