Flygtende kvinder fra byen Homs fortæller om et sandt slagtehus, hvor ingen mænd eller drenge skånes udfra regeringshærens angivelige devise “Skyd på alt, der bevæger sig”.
People fleeing the central Syrian city of Homs have told the BBC that security forces are committing atrocities (grusomme overgreb) there, including summary executions and cutting the throats of prisoners, BBC online reports Monday.
One woman said in the outskirts of Homs that soldiers had slit the throat of her 12-year-old son on Friday – a day after rebel fighters withdrew from the Baba Amr district. She said 35 other men and boys from her area had also been detained and killed.
Her husband said he was hiding about 50 meter away and saw one soldier hold down their son’s head with his boot while another killed him.
“I could hear their screams,” he added.
The government has denied the Red Cross access to Baba Amr for four consecutive days, citing security concerns.
On Thursday, government troops backed by tanks entered Baba Amr after the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) announced a “tactical withdrawal”.
Opposition and human rights activists have said security forces and pro-government militia have been rounding up men and boys over the age of 14 who are still in Baba Amr, and then torturing and killing them.
Several men who said they had defected from an elite army unit last week said that civilians were being targeted by security forces and prisoners were being killed.
“A lieutenant gave us the order,” he said. “We were told in this operation: ‘You shoot anything that moves. Civilian or military – you shoot at it.'”
The UK’s Channel 4 News broadcast secretly shot footage on Monday that it said shows hospital patients in Homs being tortured by medical staff.
Pictures showed wards full of wounded men, shackled to (lænket til) their beds and blindfolded and some showing the marks of severe beatings.
