Houriyat Almasa' writes:
Report on the humanitarian conditions in Douma on Friday on 29 June 2012
I was a eyewitness on this massacre today No clashes took place in Douma since early morning. We woke up to the sounds of security forces entering downtown Douma at 9 a.m. with heavy, armored vehicles and tanks from three axes. I heard only Alawite dialect saying like : “Kill this one. I do not want to see anybody alive in this street”. They then chanted “Allahu Akbar” after they had killed anyone in order to reassure people and suggest to them that they are from the Free Syrian Army (FSِA) so they would come out from their homes in order then to be then field executed too. They started the field executions in the street between Quwatli Street, Corniche Street, Masaken and Jalaa Street. They began with killing men and throwing on the ground by countless numbers. Nobody was able to come out of homes or shelters to remove the bodies as the security forces was continuing the execution of anybody they saw on the street in a horrible way. They then started to demolish the inhabited buildings and breaking into houses and demolishing all the houses they entered. They shot with machine guns on the people they found in their homes. Their bodies are still laying around in the streets until now. They then started shelling from helicopters on 10 a.m. and did not stop until 6 p.m. They fired several shells from aircraft on the main streets of the city.
Report on the humanitarian conditions in Douma on Friday on 29 June 2012
I was a eyewitness on this massacre today No clashes took place in Douma since early morning. We woke up to the sounds of security forces entering downtown Douma at 9 a.m. with heavy, armored vehicles and tanks from three axes. I heard only Alawite dialect saying like : “Kill this one. I do not want to see anybody alive in this street”. They then chanted “Allahu Akbar” after they had killed anyone in order to reassure people and suggest to them that they are from the Free Syrian Army (FSِA) so they would come out from their homes in order then to be then field executed too. They started the field executions in the street between Quwatli Street, Corniche Street, Masaken and Jalaa Street. They began with killing men and throwing on the ground by countless numbers. Nobody was able to come out of homes or shelters to remove the bodies as the security forces was continuing the execution of anybody they saw on the street in a horrible way. They then started to demolish the inhabited buildings and breaking into houses and demolishing all the houses they entered. They shot with machine guns on the people they found in their homes. Their bodies are still laying around in the streets until now. They then started shelling from helicopters on 10 a.m. and did not stop until 6 p.m. They fired several shells from aircraft on the main streets of the city.
Security forces then entered gradually the Hamdan Hospital and they executed a wounded woman who was there being ventilated on the artificial ventilator. They then executed a number of nurses who remained in the hospital. They seized the hospital fully so that it is no longer a way to aid the wounded. They then stopped in the Red Crescent car that was on its way out of town after it was targeted by mortars and they arrested the volunteer paramedics Youssef Khallouf and Ghayyath Albiswani.
A family consisting of 3 women and their brother tried to flee late afternoon. He was driving the car. Security forces sniped him and then arrested him. Then they sniped a woman in her chest and did the same with another woman in her sixties. The hand of another woman was also cut off. Two men returned the wounded into Douma. The old woman died. We broke into one of the doctor practices in order to get some medical supplies to treat the wounded women without any medical attendance. The women are still to bleeding without any doctor around. As for the old women I threw her body with my own hands in the Quwwatli Street, the same as the many other bodies, as the inhabitants of the building refused leaving her in the building out of fear that security forces would slaughter them all in it in case they find her there.
I heard then the voices of around 60 women in one shelter some of them injured and whining. We were not able to enter and help them due to a total lack of medical supplies as the either security forces burned them or the inhabitants threw them away during the raids. Security forces also raided centers of humanitarian relief right in the beginning. Families were in shelters, and I was in one of them, without water as a result of the targeting of water reservoirs and without electricity because the electricity transformers were hit, and also without bread. One of the children fainted out of lack of food. The number of wounded is about 80, mostly women, and the number of dead is 30 at least, and more than 100 detainees. Despite the fact that the area was under the control of security forces mortar shelling and helicopter bombardment did not stop for one single minute and also the destruction of buildings. Douma is now like pictures I saw of the Hama massacre in the 1980s under this horrible total media blackout.
We demand all humanitarian organizations for immediate intervention because only women, children and handicapped people remained in Douma in the hands of security forces. We plead to the ICRC and Red Crescent and other humanitarian organizations for an immediate intervention, and also for the immediate entry of media and even only formally on order to prevent this terrible bloodbath to be committed on women, children and defenceless civilians.
I was able to get out to the outskirts with great difficulty for the purpose of spreading the news after security forces broke the all secret means of communication we had.
Source in Arabic: https://www.facebook.com/hala.alabdalla/posts/10150898810046003
Source in Arabic: https://www.facebook.com/hala.alabdalla/posts/10150898810046003
