Syrians live amongst bones after years of Tadamon killings – Residents in the Damascus suburb have grown accustomed to walking past a spine one day, a pelvic bone the next

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1. >Year after year, Abdul-Rahman Saud watched blindfolded men be led out of a battered minibus, their hands tied firm.

   > Many stumbled as they made their way over the uneven ground, disappearing between the skeletons of bombed-out buildings.

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   “Then came the sounds of death: gunshots, screams, pleading.”

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   > “I cannot count how many they killed. Everyone here in Tadamon lived in terror,” Saud tells Middle East Eye.

   > **This is the site of the Tadamon massacre, the place seen in leaked footage from April 2013 where Syrian soldiers and militiamen walked 288 people into a pit, mocked them and shot them dead. Saud watched it in real time, or at least the prelude. He also saw a lot more.**
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   > **“They were killing people here right up until the rebels took Damascus,”** he says, one eye on his wandering goats, another on his wandering children.

   **You can see how the [machinery of death in Assad’s Syria evolved](https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1hh3lrl/syrian_mass_graves_expose_machinery_of_death/). It’s disgusting. Assad is safely living in luxury in Moscow as Putin’s protected guest. Just utter filth.**

   Some would want people to forget. I don’t think we should. This is what made a huge number of the Syrian refugees or migrants or whatever flee. **People caused that, it wasn’t a natural disaster. Assad and his allies caused that. By building death camps and then mass graves. Mass graves for tens of thousands of people, more than a 100 000.**

2. We can only hope that moderates prevail in syria and it doesn’t descend into being another terrorist puppet of Iran and Qatar – the leaders of those countries should be held accountable just as much as the leadership of Syria for the horrors they supported

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