Talk:Haswiyeh Massacre

SOHR and LCC Reports
I just checked both sites, and nothing yet. Will check back if no one else does first. SOHR LCC --Caustic Logic (talk) 12:08, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Death Toll Thoughts
Familiar patterns: Similar scale to Houla and other attempted massacres, specific family primarily targeted, cruel, blade-centered death prevalent, burning, being near Homs or Hama. But despite the similarities, this is no Houla massacre, with the killers enjoying total control and real family-level death dished out with 49 dead children. The Telegraph cited "Youssef al-Homsi, an activist based in Homs," who had a list ready of 100 names, "including 15 women and 10 children." That is, a list with 75 men. Like Tremseh or Qubeir, this would seem to be a smaller rebel massacre of maybe 35 members of one family, then many battle dead from after the army responded. If families, why so many women and so few children? They count adults from 13 up sometimes. Some girls are women, some boys among the 75 men. --Caustic Logic (talk) 12:20, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

AP: "...the pro-government daily newspaper Al-Watan reported Thursday that Syrian troops advanced in the countryside of Homs "cleansing the villages of Haswiyeh and Dweir as well as their fields" from gunmen. It did not elaborate."--Caustic Logic (talk) 12:33, 18 January 2013 (UTC)


 * There's an ITV guy tweeting from Homs. Has a different take on death toll and who was doing the killing according to witnesses. See here on Moon of Alabama. --CE (talk) 13:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Scary Side-Note
From the Telegraph:
 * ''Several videos have been posted online over the past month of men being slowly, torturously murdered with knives.
 * In one piece of footage seen by The Daily Telegraph, two man stand, whimpering, with their hand against a wall. Behind them, bearded men in military fatigues begin slashing at the men's T-shirts with knives, swearing and proclaiming their support for the Syrian president. Then they begin cutting the flesh on the men's backs. Whipping themselves into frenzy, they eventually stab their screaming victims several times in theirs sides until they cannot stand any longer and fall bloody and dying to the floor.''
 * In private conversations, senior ranking rebel commanders have admitted to The Daily Telegraph that the killings are being perpetrated on both sides.