Talk:Alleged Chemical Attack, August 21, 2013/Witnesses

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 * Between shellings and chemical weapons
 * Ammar, a nurse who was moving yesterday between Ein Tarma and Zamalka (in Ghouta near Damascus), did not have a camera to document the general scene of the Eastern Ghouta area, but he described the massacre since yesterday's dawn until yesterday's evening.


 * With great grief, he says, that we didn't know how to deal with Chemical weapon from the beginning. The shelling alerted people especially women and children to go down to shelters, which caused their death because the gas is heavy and it Precipitates towards the ground. Instead of running towards the roofs of buildings, people dashed towards shelters under ground where the gas was waiting to kill them. They were not used to deal with the chemical weapon because they already got used to normal shelling by rockets and jet fighters which usually forces them to find ground shelters. The weapon betrayed them by changing itself so they suffocated.


 * Children can't scream
 * Nouri, who carried with a group of young people the task of transporting the injured to medical points in Zamalka, says that his experience was different; he transported many injured people and dead bodies before, and even cases of nervous disorder, and intense spasms caused by fear especially children. However, what was different this time is the noise children made. Children usually produce different noise by because of fear and pain, they cry and shout, which used to be heartbreaking. But this time, it was even more heartbreaking as they were unable to scream. Our shoulders did not carry injured people, we carried scared eyes looking fearfully, that don't understand any details and are not even able to ask or scream. The gas prevented them from any realistic expression. their expressions were surreal, strange and horrific.