Like Hitler; Al-Assad Adds the Holocaust to His List of Horrific Massacres Against the Syrian People [Hashtag]

Horrific footage contained in leaked videos broadcast by a Syrian website opposed to the Assad Regime on August 11, 2021. Which sparked anger and a great reaction to the Syrians from the pioneers of social media, by sharing the hashtag #SyriaHolocaust. To denounce the Regime's crimes against the Syrian people over the past years.

Syrian activists considered the horrific footage of cremation the bodies of Syrian detainees and burying them in mass graves, come as an evidence of the world's support for Bashar al-Assad and his Regime in killing the Syrian people. Noting that the Regime did not leave a criminal method against the Syrians did not commit, in front of the eyes and ears of the whole world.

After the “Caesar Photographs” that leaked by a former Syrian soldier who defected from the Syrian Regime to thousands of victims of torture of Syrian civilians at the hands of the Syrian Regime. The recently leaked horrific footage comes as an accusation to the silent international and Arab community for these crimes and the betrayal of the Syrian people, according to Syrian activists.

 

Horrific Holocaust

In the context, “Zaman al-Wasl” newspaper, which is opposed to the Regime, broadcast horrific videos documenting the cremation of the bodies of opposition detainees by members of al-Assad's intelligence branches and army, during the period between 2011-2013, in a deserted area near the town of al-Masmiya in the northwestern countryside of Daraa city.

The videos document that members of the Assad Regime abused the bodies of the detainees amid festive rituals. Where bodies were trampled and their owners cursed, then the bodies were removed from the truck and rolled into the pit, they poured fuel on them, and set them on fire.

The opposition newspaper considered the horrific footage an official statement on behalf of the millions of Syrian victims. It calls on the active forces in the world, including governments, bodies, organizations and councils, to achieve justice and prosecute those involved.

The Syrian newspaper also condemned the world's continued recognition of Bashar al-Assad and his Regime as the legitimate representatives of Syria. Despite all the documented crimes that they have committed and are still committed against the Syrians, which prove the Regime’s barbarism and deep-seated hatred for the living and the dead.

In turn, human rights activists denounced the world's call for dialogue and a peaceful solution in Syria instead of removing Bashar al-Assad and holding him accountable for the war crimes he committed against the Syrian people for 10 years. They stressed that the hatred of the Regime and its sectarian militias against the Syrians has reached its climax.

Activists unanimously agreed that “the horrific footages leaked to the media are only part of what the Syrians are exposed to at the hands of the Assad Regime, of crimes and atrocities that are internationally classified as war crimes.”

They stressed that “the Syrian Regime is a holocaust Regime that surpassed the Nazis in its crimes, hatred and brutality.”

For its part, the National Coalition of the Syrian Opposition said: “These footage of cremation of human bodies are reminiscent of the holocausts of the mid-20th century. It is as if the regime’s history is still confined in that era, the era of killing, burning and exterminating people just because they have a political or religious opinion that contradicts the ruling authority.”

The Coalition called on the international community to take urgent and effective action against this criminal Regime and its allies. It also calling on the United Nations to implement the principle of responsibility to protect the population from genocide and war crimes. It appealed to the active states in the UN Security Council to rescue the detainees and release them from the death chambers of the Assad Regime.

It is noteworthy that “the footages of the cremation of bodies of Syrian detainees at the hands of the Assad Regime are no less brutal and horrific than the leaked Caesar photographs, and also about the horrors of the prisons reported by human rights organizations”; However, what the eye sees seems more severe than the words and narratives conjure up.

 

Brutal Crimes

For 10 years filled with all kinds of atrocities, the file of detainees and forcibly disappeared persons remained the most pressing file on the Syrians. This pressure was increased by thicker walls of secrecy, and high walls of mystery, tightly built by the Assad Regime. 

Until “Caesar” came and made the first qualitative gaps. When, in early 2014, about 55,000 clips were leaked documenting part of the fate of thousands of detainees who died under torture in the Regime's prisons.

However, Caesar's Photographs left in the minds of millions of Syrian families of detainees and disappeared urgent and outstanding questions, in the foreground: What happened to the bodies... How and where did the Regime bury them?

The Assad Regime due to the large number of executions carried out against detainees in its prisons. It resorted to the method of the famous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, through the cremation of the dead bodies under torture. It adds the Syrian Holocaust to his long list of massacres.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights says about 100,000 people were arrested or forcibly disappeared since the beginning of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in 2011.

In a related context, during one of the sessions of the Koblenz Court in Germany against two former Syrian intelligence officers in the Assad Regime. 

One of the witnesses, called “Z-30”, spoke about the mission entrusted to him by Assad's intelligence between 2011 and 2017. 

As he works within a governmental body specialized in burial affairs in the capital, Damascus, its conclusion is that for 6 years, he participated in the burial of more than 1,500000 people killed by the Assad Regime.

As for the specific burial place for all those bodies, it was in the area of ​​Najha (south of Damascus) and also in the area of ​​al-Qutayfah (north of Damascus). In addition to the Mezzeh military airport, which is under the authority of the Fourth Division in the Assad Army, which is led by Brigadier General Maher al-Assad, brother of the head of the Regime, Bashar al-Assad.

It is noteworthy that in May 2017, the US administration accused the Assad Regime of setting up a crematorium in Sednaya prison to dispose of the bodies of detainees and turn them to ashes, to get rid of evidence of his crimes. 

It was only a matter of hours before the Regime came out through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an official statement, it denied what was reported by Washington, describing it as a Hollywood novel.

Under the slogan “Assad or we burn the country,” which the sectarian Assad Regime has brazenly launched since the first day of the Syrian Revolution, and it carried it out brutally, deliberately, and with knowledge of its consequences. A slogan that represents the dirtiest thing a person can do against what is supposed to be his homeland.

Ten years of war in Syria have killed 500,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6.7 million as refugees to neighboring countries.