Published : 03-01-2023
In late April last year, the Guardian published an investigation with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria’s capital Damascus, in April 2013, and claiming the lives of 41 people, including three Palestinian refugees.
The three refugees are Wasim Omar Seyam, Sa’id Ahmad Khatab, Abd Luay AlKubra, residents of Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus.
Informed sources told AGPS that Wasim Seyam, born in 1980 and a graduate of the Teacher Training Institute in Damascus, was arrested in 2013 by Syrian security forces deployed on Nisreen Street, while on his way out of Yarmouk Camp to fetch flour for his starved family.
Sa’id, also a resident of Yarmouk Camp, is the grandson of Sai’d Khattab, who was killed in Ein Zaytoun massacre along 79 residents of the village, by Zionist militias.
The piece published by the Guardian was called “Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal,” and written by Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov.
Tadamon is a suburb south of Damascus. It was there that groups of civilians were rounded up, sent towards an execution pit, and shot dead.
The British newspaper reported that the mass grave contained at least 41 bodies following the massacre. The bodies were then doused with fuel and set alight.
In the video footage, soldiers could be heard laughing.
The massacre took place just a few miles from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power.
The footage was recorded by a new recruit to a loyalist militia, who leaked it first to an opposition activist in France and then to two researchers: Annsar Shahhoud and Prof. Ugur Umit Ungor of the University of Amsterdam’s Holocaust and Genocide Center.
In July 2022, the father of Palestinian victim Waseem Seyam delivered a statement as part of Agenda Item 4 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
“The footage of the Tadamun massacre published by The Guardian in April 2022 was just shocking and dreadful for us all. I can’t believe that you were mercilessly shot dead along with other victims while being blindfolded and zip-tied after you were forced to run towards an execution pit. Your bodies were then set on fire. This horrendous crime is just scandalous”, the father told the UNHRC.
The Palestinian Return Centre also submitted to the United Nations an extensive written report on the Al-Tadamon neighborhood massacre, which was officially filed under No. A/HRC/50/NGO/116.
In late April last year, the Guardian published an investigation with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria’s capital Damascus, in April 2013, and claiming the lives of 41 people, including three Palestinian refugees.
The three refugees are Wasim Omar Seyam, Sa’id Ahmad Khatab, Abd Luay AlKubra, residents of Yarmouk Camp, south of Damascus.
Informed sources told AGPS that Wasim Seyam, born in 1980 and a graduate of the Teacher Training Institute in Damascus, was arrested in 2013 by Syrian security forces deployed on Nisreen Street, while on his way out of Yarmouk Camp to fetch flour for his starved family.
Sa’id, also a resident of Yarmouk Camp, is the grandson of Sai’d Khattab, who was killed in Ein Zaytoun massacre along 79 residents of the village, by Zionist militias.
The piece published by the Guardian was called “Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal,” and written by Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov.
Tadamon is a suburb south of Damascus. It was there that groups of civilians were rounded up, sent towards an execution pit, and shot dead.
The British newspaper reported that the mass grave contained at least 41 bodies following the massacre. The bodies were then doused with fuel and set alight.
In the video footage, soldiers could be heard laughing.
The massacre took place just a few miles from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power.
The footage was recorded by a new recruit to a loyalist militia, who leaked it first to an opposition activist in France and then to two researchers: Annsar Shahhoud and Prof. Ugur Umit Ungor of the University of Amsterdam’s Holocaust and Genocide Center.
In July 2022, the father of Palestinian victim Waseem Seyam delivered a statement as part of Agenda Item 4 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
“The footage of the Tadamun massacre published by The Guardian in April 2022 was just shocking and dreadful for us all. I can’t believe that you were mercilessly shot dead along with other victims while being blindfolded and zip-tied after you were forced to run towards an execution pit. Your bodies were then set on fire. This horrendous crime is just scandalous”, the father told the UNHRC.
The Palestinian Return Centre also submitted to the United Nations an extensive written report on the Al-Tadamon neighborhood massacre, which was officially filed under No. A/HRC/50/NGO/116.
