Talk:Sanamayn Massacre

Sanamayn Location

Route 5, smack dab between Damascus and Dara’a. Biggest town between them, straddling the highway, a key locale. on Wikimapia. --Caustic Logic (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

It may be worth noting, that the area is heavily militarized. Sanamayn is 25km east of the Golan DMZ. These is a sting of prepared enclosures and fortifications east if the Damascus–Dara'a road. Note also the "Khamis" style military housing complex 3km south of Sanamayn. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 00:06, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Reports

New York Times report

Military in Syria Is Accused of Massacre By RICK GLADSTONE and ALAN COWELL Published: April 11, 2013

• ...at least 60 civilians, including women and children, were killed in what the opposition called a government-ordered atrocity motivated by revenge.

• The town sits astride a vital highway that rebel forces have been fighting to control in recent weeks. Brigades affiliated with the Free Syrian Army had seized a number of towns south of Sanamayn, and this month took control of a military base near Dara’a ...

• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad group based in Britain with a network of contacts inside Syria, said military forces had started the assault against Sanamayn on Wednesday, shelling and shooting randomly and burning or wrecking at least 20 houses. Victims included at least seven women and five people under the age of 18, the group said.

That's what they get for letting the rebels attack it for some time. Punish the rebels/supporters there for gains elsewhere. NOT part of the rebel gains. 12 women and children out of 60 dead, app. 48 men ... where have we seen that kind of ratio before? --Caustic Logic (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

• An anti-Assad activist reached independently by telephone who identified himself by only one name, Qaysar, for safety reasons, said some of the victims had been “summarily executed or stabbed or burned.” He said Sanamayn’s residents included displaced families uprooted by the civil war mayhem that has afflicted other parts of Syria, including some Damascus suburbs. As of Thursday, he said, the town remained encircled by government forces.

Ah yes, in places where those civilians get stabbed and burned and such. "Shabiha" stuff. --Caustic Logic (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

• Syria’s main political opposition group, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, described the reported killings in Sanamayn as a massacre by a military that “slaughters civilians in retaliation for its defeats.”

Indeed, see Daraya, etc. --Caustic Logic (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

• There was no reporting about Sanamayn in Syria’s state-run news media.

If true, that would argue against a military operation, which is usually reported around these murky massacres. Terrorists attack civilians, the army responds, the area is cleansed, they say. Are the larger numbers of men instead part of the rebel attack? As in Aleppo, perhaps Daraya, etc. - mostly snatching younger men, then killing them for whatever reason? --Caustic Logic (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

However, a Press TV report of April 11 cites clashes there with dead fighters on both sides.

Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between the Syrian army and foreign-backed militants, who are fighting to topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The clashes erupted on Thursday in the southern town of al-Sanamayn in Dara’a Governorate. Reports said the fighting left nine soldiers as well as 25 militants dead, while nearly two dozen civilians reportedly lost their lives in the course of the violence.

SOHR

• Sanamein massacre amid global silence

Der'a province: 29 civilians (including 7 women, 5 children and 3 unidentified persons including a child) and 16 rebels were killed by gunfire, bombardment, clashes and field executions in the towns of Sanamein and Ghabagheb yesterday. The number of casualties is likely to rise because more than 40 people are severely injured, and there are several people who have been reported missing. 3 soldiers were killed while trying to defect. The bombardment has resulted in the destruction of more than 10 houses and more than 20 houses were burnt. 9 regular soldiers were killed by the clashes.

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9QTLbQcJ8 black-mask rebel shows off over a dozen bodies, mostly men but some kids and unsures included, lined up in some rebel-held mosque

Similar name tags as we saw on the fighters killed in the "Daraya massacre". Or are these really name tags, or just the same prayers repeated for everyone?

Black baklava? Is this typical of the Golan rebels? -- Petri Krohn (talk) 00:19, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z9zhLNRcgY

All Voices, 5 videos

SANA, Regional Violence

As mentioned, SANA apparently had no immediate word on Sanamayn (in English anyway). However, an April 13 report had activity in the area between Dara'a and Damascus, possibly related:

Four siblings were martyred as a mortar shell launched by terrorists fell near Gas Station on Daraa-Damascus Highway. An official source told SANA reporter that the mortar shell caused the martyrdom of four siblings, including three women, in addition to material damage.

A unit of the Armed Forces repelled an armed terrorist group affiliated to "Jabhat al-Nusra" who was attempting to attack a military checkpoint in Smad village in Daraa countryside, inflicting heavy losses upon it. An official source told SANA that during repelling the terrorists, an Army unit destroyed two cars along with weapon and ammunitions inside them. In addition to killing all terrorists in the cars, most terrorists were Jordanians.

The source added that another Army unit killed 4 terrorists' leaders in Daraa countryside. The terrorists who were killed include Khled al-Subh, Muhammad al-Atya, Muhammad Sa'ud and Abdullah al-Sa'ud, in addition to injuring Yousf al-Halawa who is one of the most dangerous terrorists in Daraa countryside.

Who needs SANA when you have SyrPer? --CE (talk) 01:20, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Only Syrian Perspective delivers on news straight from the front. Our source, Monzer, was in Al-Sanamayn yesterday and saw firsthand the fighting and its aftermath. It was a glorious day for our secular government and great army. Militia played a remarkably constructive role by securing areas cleared of rats by the SAA. In previous times, the SAA might be bogged down with holding cleansed areas. No anymore.

At Al-Sanamayn, we can confirm the deaths of these filthy, disease-carrying rodents:

Abdul-Jabbaar Khulayfaawi, Mansoor Ahmad Al-Beebee, Wafeeq Muhammad Al-Mahaasina,'Ammaar Mashshaat, Mahmoud Hussayn Khalaayila (Jordanian cockroach), Jihaad Humayd Al-Haamed, Fu'aad Jaaroodi, Taqiyuddeen 'Ali Abu-Sakher, Hassan Al-Shaa'er, Firaas Mahmoud Al-A'war, Muhammad Hassan-Ali, Waa'el Muhammad Jumaylaati, Mithqaal Rabee' Al-Laabi'

Another 14 could not be identified. They are believed to be foreigners. There are more carcasses being identified as we write. Great victory for the SAA and SAAF!! Good show.

More today: --CE (talk) 16:18, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

NOTE TO OUR READERS: The fighting for Ghabaagheb and Al-Sanamayn is largely over. Monzer claims that there are over 300 confirmed dead rats with "hundreds taken prisoner". This was a disaster for Obama's murderous rats. Any effort to establish some parallel government got set back a century with this spectacular SAA and SAAF victory. Hooray!!