13 year old castrated and murdered by Syrian security forces

[Kuya]

"He would often ask his parents for money to give to the poor. I remember once he wanted to give someone 100 Syrian Pounds ($2), and his family said it was too much. But Hamza said, 'I have a bed and food while that guy has nothing.' And so he persuaded his parents to give the poor man the 100."

In the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's security forces, however, Hamza found no such compassion, his humanity degraded to nothing more than a lump of flesh to beat, burn, torture and defile, until the screaming stopped at last.

Arrested during a protest in Saida, 10km east of Daraa, on April 29, Hamza's body was returned to his family on Tuesday 24th May, horribly mutilated.

The child had spent nearly a month in the custody of Syrian security, and when they finally returned his corpse it bore the scars of brutal torture: Lacerations, bruises and burns to his feet, elbows, face and knees, consistent with the use of electric shock devices and of being whipped with cable, both techniques of torture documented by Human Rights Watch as being used in Syrian prisons during the bloody three-month crackdown on protestors.

Hamza's eyes were swollen and black and there were identical bullet wounds where he had apparently been shot through both arms, the bullets tearing a hole in his sides and lodging in his belly.

On Hamza's chest was a deep, dark burn mark. His neck was broken and his penis cut off.

"A month had passed by with his family not knowing where he was, or if or when he would be released. He was released to his family as a corpse. Upon examining his body, the signs of torture are very clear."

The original clip has since been removed, but a version with Hamza's castrated genitals blurred is still running [Note: this video is extremely graphic].

"When Hamza's mother came to see the body she was only shown his face," said the cousin, who was present at the time.

"We tried to tell the father not to look, but he pulled the blanket back. When he saw Hamza's body he fainted. People ran to help him and some started filming - it was chaos."

April 29 was dubbed "The Friday of Ending the siege on Deraa", the border city where the torture of children had lit the spark for the Syrian uprising and where Maher al-Assad's forces lead the assault on a civilian population that killed hundreds.

Hamza didn't burn for politics, said his cousin, "but everybody seemed to be going to the protest, so he went along as well," walking with friends and family the 12km along the road from his home town of Jeezah north-west to Saida.

The firing began almost as soon as the villagers reached the edge of Saida, said the cousin.

"People were killed and wounded, some were arrested. It was chaotic we didn't know at that point what had happened to Hamza. He just disappeared."

A second source from the region, an activist, also spoke to Al Jazeera, confirming that Hamza had been among 51 protesters detained on April 29, he said, by Airforce Intelligence, which a number of detainees have reported as using brutal torture.

"They were all arrested by the anti-terrorism branch of the Airforce Intelligence," said the activist.

"They were all alive when they went into prison, but we received 13 bodies back this week and all had been tortured. The Airforce Intelligence are notorious for torture, they're barbarians. We're expecting another dozen bodies back in the coming days."

Responding to the video of Hamza's mutilated body, Syria's only private TV station, the pro-regime Al Dunia, aired an interview (Arabic) with a forensic doctor from Damascus' Tishreen Militarily Hospital.

Dr. Akram al-Shaar, who claimed to have supervised the autopsy of Hamza in Tishreen, said he found no signs of torture, claiming the marks on Hamza's body had been caused by natural decomposition.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...927813389.html

Fucking animals

[Kuya]

Hamza's father was briefly detained late Saturday afternoon, said his wife, after the secret police demanded he tell state media that Hamza was killed by armed Salafists, Sunni Muslim extremists, which the regime has claimed are driving the popular uprising.

Real cute

[Rocl]

you make the best threads, kuya

[Kuya]

Outrage is my game, and boy am i fucking angry about this one.

[Pirian]

Wow, that kid had some balls standing up to them.

[Yuri-G]

lol @ the "doctor" who said the marks resulted from natural decomposition

that's not a funny lol, that's a sad lol, btw. as if that needed clarifying

[archibaldcrane]

Goddamn you Syria, making Israel look like a bright shining beacon of hope in the middle-east darkness.

[ronin sparthos]

Upsetting to say the least.

[Jaybar]

Don't worry, I'm praying really hard.

[Tymon]

Horrid, but unfortunately this probably is one of many examples that DON'T get coincidentally filmed and picked up by international media.

[Rhinox]

"He would often ask his parents for money to give to the poor. I remember once he wanted to give someone 100 Syrian Pounds ($2), and his family said it was too much. But Hamza said, 'I have a bed and food while that guy has nothing.' And so he persuaded his parents to give the poor man the 100."

Stopped caring after I read this.


Either
A. Its complete bullshit to martyr this kid further and spark international outrage.
B. See A.

I'll file this next to the Libyan/Iraqi/Bosnian Rape camps.

Threads like these proves how fucking gullible the American( inc. puerto rican apparently) public is. Don't get me wrong sucks that the kid got killed and all but if you turn on Nancy grace you can find kids being killed p much weekly in the united states.

[Correction]

There's definitely some Elian Gonzales spitshining going on with the boy's story. Nothing more tasteless than a child's corpse used as a political football.

[Kuya]

Stopped caring after I read this.


Either
A. Its complete bullshit to martyr this kid further and spark international outrage.
B. See A.

I'll file this next to the Libyan/Iraqi/Bosnian Rape camps.

Threads like these proves how fucking gullible the American( inc. puerto rican apparently) public is. Don't get me wrong sucks that the kid got killed and all but if you turn on Nancy grace you can find kids being killed p much weekly in the united states.

I don't care.

[Rhinox]

You mean the kid wasn't the reincarnation of Mother Teresa?

Get the fuck out of here!

[Cadsuane]

It's amazing the intellectual hoops people will jump through to avoid having an opinion on a subject

[Rhinox]

Hey you guys it's no big deal if a 13-year-old gets tortured and murdered, because stuff like that happens elsewhere too.

Dude you got me totally wrong.

I'm outraged! so much so that I wanna do something about it!

like... Complain about the lack of coverage in the mainstream media!

[Rhinox]

It's amazing the intellectual hoops people will jump through to avoid having an opinion on a subject

say wha?

Don't get me wrong sucks that the kid got killed and all but if you turn on Nancy grace you can find kids being killed p much weekly in the united states.

[Kuya]

Isladar, does this count as anti thread posting?

[Eurell]

Threads like these proves how fucking gullible the American( inc. puerto rican apparently) public is. Don't get me wrong sucks that the kid got killed and all but if you turn on Nancy grace you can find kids being killed p much weekly in the united states.

Yeah, I totally remember that story she had about the airforce cutting off that kids penis here in America. Oh wait...

[Cadsuane]

say wha?

Right, as in the specious comparison between the US and Syria of all places in an attempt to establish the triviality of a report can be said to be an opinion, I guess, in a really literal sense of the word, but the point is that attempting to do so is kind of like saying an opinion, especially one that has to do with the advocacy of human rights, is not worth having, so status quo etc. no reason to get excited.

Oh, wait, I remember you now. You're a moron.