Well today was interesting 🙂 Things that stand out in the Arab League meeting today (other than the fact the Assad government are no longer represented there) is the lack of female participation and role – if in a meeting as such there were less than 5 women as far as I could see representing […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
What’s happening to my city in Syria right now is something else..hasn’t happened as bad for a long time…the government is shelling one of the last safe areas housing its own civilians and thousands upon thousands of displaced people including family and friends. Fires are left and right, people running in the night with no […]
Read a few days ago that over the past decade in Burma around 6 million children have been injured or permanently disabled and around 2 million have died as a result of the conflict and instability. Young girls and boys are used as soldiers or sex slaves. It’s happening as we go about our lives. […]
The Syrian regime has just sent dozens of shells onto Khaled Ibn Waleeds mosque in Homs, Syria – he was a friend of the prophet Muhamad and is buried in there. A major part of his mosque is now destroyed. Note: this isn’t the first time his mosque is hit, and it isn’t the first […]
It’s come to 2 years, 2 years ago many of our lives changed. Syria changed. It was beautiful with some pain. Now it’s blood and so much pain as a country is ripped apart. Women raped daily as well as girls men and young boys. Homes are demolished with over 2 million people internally displaced […]
From a previous detainee in Syria: Upon arrest they are tied up and their eyes covered. Upon arrival to the branch they are beaten with batons, cables and whips. Hitting upon arrival included on the chest which forced the young man to fall back (onto those who had fallen behind him due to torture). ————————————— […]
The wheel. Previous detainees in Syria described how they were forced to push their head and neck as well as their legs through a car tore thus leading to their paralysis so they cannot protect themself from the coming beating on the head and back using batons, cables and whips. Some did have to enter […]
I find it hard to share this as my beloved friend was hanged and tortured in a similar way but she is now free and safe. ———————————– Some forms of torture include electricity and the wheel. Some of the torture equipment are things not heard off, created and manufactured in Syrian prisons thus the torture […]
To the left, the European requirements as to how many are allowed in a 4 by 5 prison cell, and to the right how many Syrians are usually crammed for months on end in a 4 by 5 cell. قام كافة الشهود الذين قابلتهم هيومن رايتس ووتش بوصف ظروف الاعتقال في تلك المراكز بعبارات تجعلها […]
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