Talk:Alleged Chemical Attack, August 21, 2013/Activist reports

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[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=709557859059498&set=pb.709386345743316.-2207520000.1378258862. Chemical Massacre in Syria - Massacre Chimique en Syrie] – August 21, 2013, 9.40 pm

A #massacre in Eastern AL#Ghouta's towns due to #chemical weaponry - Wednesday, 21/8/2013.

A report from activists on location:

At around 3:00 a.m. in the morning, regime's forces fired rockets with chemical heads on Zamallaka and on Al Zainia area in Ein Turma. Jobar district was slightly affected by as the gases were driven to it by the wind. A big number of civilians were consequently subjected to the gases, leading to the martyrdom of tens of them. Up until now, primary reports from makeshift hospital of Arbeen (where victims were taken) report 41 martyrs fell (22 children, 11 women, 8 men), 5 other martyrs were taken to Douma, 40 martyrs documented by videos in Saqba, and at least 20 martyrs inside Ein Turma itself. Most activists report that death toll amounts to more than a 100 up until now. Many of the martyrs are children, seen in videos below suffocating to death.

Do note that the death toll is very hard to report right now as there are up to 80 civilians in critical conditions in a medical point in Arbeen solely, not mentioning all the other areas to which the patients subjected to the chemical weapons were taken to. [Note: patients were taken to several areas for treatment including Arbeen, Saqba, and Douma].

Symptoms of the patients include nausea, hallucinations, suffocation, hard coughing, high blood pressure, seizures, during affection and post-death gargle, etc. Still, no clue of the chemical weapon/toxic gas that was used by the regime's forces to target the innocent civilians.

Families are fleeing the targeted areas to Saqba and several other nearby areas as reported by activists there as they are utterly horrified. Activists also report the lack of Atropine that is usually used to treat civilians during chemical attacks by the regime; oxygen tanks are not available too. Medics are only using vinegar to the mouth and nose and are washing the bodies of the victims by water.

--Doctor speaking from a medical point in Eastern Al Ghouta, also receiving victims of chemical weaponry:
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZuYpsZZTlc

--Photos/videos of martyrs taken from Arbeen:

(21 martyred children and 8 martyred men in video solely)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRTMheTT8A&feature=c4-overview&list=UUfMnrc-v5i_cieu14Gy5Mhw

(father carrying martyred daughter)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644910472200811&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqVeCVovF58&feature=c4-overview&list=UUfMnrc-v5i_cieu14Gy5Mhw

(one of the martyred children)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644912875533904&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater

(one of the martyred children)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644913452200513&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater

(2 martyred children)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644914802200378&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater

(martyred man)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644924865532705&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater

(one martyred child)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644925485532643&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater

--Victims of chemical weaponry:
 * (child suffocating)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644939548864570&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater
 * (child affected; blue lips due to suffocation)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644954125529779&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater
 * (civilians on ground)
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=644954565529735&set=a.301421553216373.79204.301396186552243&type=1&theater

VIDEOS
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqCDSq_BXKo
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPZwlhsglIs (huge number of victims on ground)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXwS4_E3OQE&feature=c4-overview&list=UUr0XtWlKwpfpxYoLkHzKoxw (children affected)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTKTlf4-Dg (children affected; lips blue due to suffocation)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5kqpYyT2c&feature=c4-overview&list=UUfMnrc-v5i_cieu14Gy5Mhw (attempts to resuscitate a child)

--Photos/videos taken from Hamoureyyeh:
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlYSmoa6BUs&list=UUQ57A4S-uWJrpi8j5AN9N5Q (tens of civilians on ground in a medical point, suffocating)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK1Nu8A1jEo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUQ57A4S-uWJrpi8j5AN9N5Q (attempts to resuscitate children)

--Photos/videos from Saqba:
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBq0HJs_ggw&feature=c4-overview&list=UUPJ5c1m7advFxfWUfuVR2Vw (ambulance cars rushing to rescue victims)

(3 videos documenting martyrdom of 40 civilians in one medical point)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0fWpKmFuY (part 1)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8H_iuI56zY (part 2)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUnehzxsUGs (part 3)


 * #CWMassacre

Photo by: Bassam Al Hakeem

Jisreen
تنسيقية جسرين-الثورة السورية في ريف دمشق – August 21 at 7:37am
 * https://www.facebook.com/Jsreen.revolution/posts/365864280208878

East Gouta 21/08/2013 #Urgent Haaaam

The largest humanitarian massacre in the history of the revolution against the civilians of East Gouta chemical weapons. Hundreds of martyrs and thousands of injuries.

East Gouta | | Ain Tarma - Zamalka - حزة - Jobar :


 * been limited so far and at least 280 martyrs in 5 points medical only so far in the East Gouta 51 martyr at least one of the points Medical At another point 61 dead and a third 67 martyrs and point fourth over fifty and more than fifty martyr point fifth, and there are points Medical many did not received إحصائياتها after ...
 * 23 children 17 women 11 men at one point and playful numbers increase.
 * Most of the cases of women and children as they slept and all of the civilian casualties, and there are a lot of civilians who remained in their homes affected areas with chemotherapy has not been evacuated and maybe they died.
 * The odors spread in some neighborhoods of Damascus and nearby towns in East Gouta.
 * doctors talk about that user is gas sarin.
 * Ambulances hardly calm patrolling the streets Gota and transported the injured and medical points teeming with injuries.
 * details of what happened :
 * Bombarded with missiles to hear her voice for the first time / / 29 / / rocket loaded with chemicals on East Gouta between Ain Tarma and Zamalka, shelling started at / 2:45 / am five missiles people are sleeping , and the rest of the rockets fell , respectively.
 * We demand the international investigation committee using chemotherapy located in Damascus to go directly to the cities of Ain ​​Tarma and Zamalka .. the And to the neighborhood of Jobar Also, it is possible to directly check that and get conclusive evidence of the land of the event ...
 * These strikes come and chemical weapons monitoring committee of the United Nations in the center of Damascus ..

Talk Radio News Service

 * ‘Syria’s Srebrenica’ Claims Hundreds Of Lives And Cleans Out Hospital Supplies – TRNS, August 21, 2013
 * “People were screaming and asking for help. They had difficulty in breathing and seeing. There were many dead bodies on the ground. Some families were sleeping when the attack took place and all the family members died,” Al Aan TV reporter Mohammad Salah El Din told TRNS in an exclusive interview via Skype after visiting area hospitals. “I was shocked.”


 * Many of the victims were brought to area hospitals unconscious or dead, said Dr. Abo Akram, a director of medical field hospital in Erbeen, a Damascus suburb. Others gained consciousness after recovering from a “state of poisoning.”


 * “This is going to be Syria’s Srebrenica,” said Dan Layman of the Syrian Support Group (SSG) in Washington, referring to the July 1995 massacre in modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina that claimed at least 7,000 lives.


 * The SSG has lobbied aggressively for providing direct military assistance to the rebel Free Syrian Army.


 * According to a SSG report on this morning’s attacks, four military-grade rockets were fired from two government-controlled locations at about 2:20 a.m. local time – one along the Damascus-Homs Highway at a location known as the Baghdad Bridge, and another from the neighborhood of Qabun. The rockets landed in four rebel-controlled residential neighborhoods in Ghota.


 * The targeted areas — Ein Tarma, Jobar, Arbeen, and Zamalka — are recent additions to a slew of rebel-controlled territories near the Syrian leader’s stronghold in Damascus.

Syrian Support Group

 * SSG’s Updated Report on the East Ghouta Chemical Attacks – Syrian Support Group, August 22, 2013
 * Initial injuries were around ten FSA fighters, in adition to about ten civilians first found outside. Immediately hundreds of citizens, struck while asleep in their homes, began arriving at hospitals.

Human Rights Watch

 * Syria: Witnesses Describe Alleged Chemical Attacks – August 21, 2013