Talk:Al-Qusayr

Rebels, combatants or civilians?
Syrian Sama TV showed yet another "massacre" in al-Qusayr in Syria today. The video shows one or two piles of bodies. The dead males do not look like jihadi. Except for one Kalashnikov, they do not even look like combatants. In fact, they look like civilians, refugees or killed civilian captives. Yet the SAA displays them to television and the channel displays them to the world audience. Evidently they have a strong claim that these men died in battle combating the Syrian Arab Army. If this is true, this video might give insight into investigating other claimed massacres. One must not let a bright civilian attire mislead one into believing that some dead people are peaceful protesters or other massacre victims. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:54, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Homs al Qusayr - and destroy the military unit vehicle equipped with a heavy machine gun including the entire North Municipal Stadium – May 24, 2013
 * Interesting. I'm aware of that problem, where fighters even intentionally dress civilian to look innocent if killed. I also look for age and fitness clues and mostly method of death. Like the 100+ men laid at the mosque in Daraya - too clean and too widely reclaimed to be battle dead. Despite being almost all fighting age males, I suspect those were hostages executed before the retreat, loaded at leisure to make claims with later. Otherwise, fighters also makes some sense there, and more sense in other cases, including of course al-Bayda. --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:16, 25 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Here is a video of rebel attack in central Daraa today. Everyone is wearing civilian clothes. Makes them kind of look like locals. Maybe the unarmed ones are. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 11:36, 29 May 2013 (UTC)