Talk:Adra massacre

Death Toll
(to be settled.) It seems 19 confirmed, dozens and not many dozens, 40 or so total, seems to be winning at the moment. For my part, I don't think the 200-ish 185-ish numbers sound made-up. This was an audacious operation, with the most detailed (or propaganda-laden?) reports telling of carnage like that unleashed on the towns of Latakia, where 200 were taken hostage and 200 killed. The attack included families in homes, a factory fully staffed, and several areas, with perhaps thousands of fighters. I suspect we're in the cautious, pre-confirmation, confirmed sub-sets phase. And the number of those taken captive needs considered - those will be in the dead or worse category, and as many as all of them could wind up in the dead one eventually. I invite being shown wrong, but I predict we'll be seeing more confirmation of the higher numbers in due time. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:22, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

World Reaction
A rare condemnation by the no-longer rebel-supplying United States was issued by the State Department, tacked onto the underside of another condemnation of (unattributed but implicitly "regime") violence in Nabk:
 * We condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent massacres of Syrian civilians in the Qalamoun region and elsewhere. Scores of civilians, many of them children, have again fallen victim to brutal violence, and we are outraged at the alarming reports, including reports of invasive house raids, kidnappings, and extrajudicial killings. We also note and condemn the latest report of a massacre of civilians in Adra.

But they have less details and adjectives, and weaker terms, for that. There is something big and awful at least reportedly going on in Nabk - I'm not following, but I saw the VDC is listing related field execution victims in recent days. I'm sure it's worth a page and will get one in time. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:22, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Activist Sources
Forthcoming, no promise of speed. SOHR, LCC, VDC (might be unusual coverage there considering the same-time Abduction of Razan Zaitouneh, and ... might this be connected?) --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:16, 13 December 2013 (UTC)