Two University of Amsterdam researchers have meticulously documented one of Syria’s worst atrocities: The mass execution in 2013 of scores of men, women and children in the Tadhamun neighborhood just a short distance away from Damascus city center. The recently published documentation provides compelling evidence of a war crime. Professor Ugur Umit Ungor and Annsar Shahhoud,
Syrian opposition officials believe the Assad regime will eliminate its own soldiers following an investigation into a horrific massacre in Tadamon, where 41 people were executed.
In Frankfurt, Germany, a Syrian doctor is accused of crimes against humanity. He is said to have tortured 18 prisoners in Syria’s military hospitals, depriving two of their ability to reproduce, and killing one. Dr. Alaa Moussa had lived and worked in Germany as a doctor since 2015. His trial, the second one on Syrian state torture before German courts, is bound to uncover medical violence against prisoners under the Assad regime.