Najeh Aziz - a survivor of the massacre in Hama that the Syrian regime committed in 1982 - said that the regime forces massacred worshipers in a mosque and then burned their bodies, and that he did not forget the scenes of the killing of fetuses in their mothers' stomachs, despite the 39 years that have passed since the massacre.

Aziz (62 years) - the witness to the events of the massacre and the survivor of it - narrated to the Anatolian correspondent an aspect of the "brutality" of the regime forces in Hama, where they killed people, destroyed the stone, and not even farm animals were spared.

Cruel scenes from the Hama massacre (communication sites)

A mass execution

Aziz lost 20 of his relatives in the massacre that lasted 27 days between February 2 and 28, 1982, and affected protesters in the city against the rule of the "Al-Assad family" that continues to this day.

He said, "On one of the days of the massacre, the regime forces entered the center of the city and gathered all of the men they encountered, then executed them all by shooting them," indicating that the soldiers collected the bodies and stacked them on top of each other.

He added that about 40 piles of corpses were present in the back yard of the Civil Defense Center in Hama, after the regime forces executed them.

Aziz stressed that the mass executions - which were carried out by the regime forces - flooded Hama with blood.

The Hama massacre in 1982 (communication sites)

Executing worshipers and burning their bodies

Aziz talked about another horrific incident, which is the mass execution of worshipers in the Zaid bin Thabit Mosque on the old Hama-Aleppo road, and their bodies were then burned.

He added that the regime forces surrounded the city for several days before attacking it.

He stressed that even farm animals did not survive the massacre, including the thoroughbred horses that are famous for their breeding on Hama farms, where the regime forces killed them in cold blood.

Activists commemorate the massacre of Hama (communication sites)

Killing women and stealing their gold

As his eyes started to tear as he recalled his escape from the massacre over the bodies of the dead, Aziz said, "The regime soldiers used to cry the stomachs of women, kill the fetuses inside them, and say they are terrorists."

He added that the regime soldiers "used to cut off the hands of the women who killed them and stole gold jewelry from them."

Najeh Aziz, a survivor of the massacre of Hama (Anatolia)

Break into homes

"God saved me, and I managed to escape through the alleys, as the regime's intelligence services, backed by soldiers on the 12th and 13th of the massacre, stormed and searched homes," he added.

He added, "I managed to escape before that, and whoever was arrested in his house was killed. The fugitives took refuge in the villages, where the people of those villages covered them."

During the massacre, the regime forces cordoned off the city and bombed it with artillery, then they invaded under the command of Colonel Rifaat, brother of Hafez al-Assad (1939-2000).

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the regime forces killed 30,000 people during the massacre, while the fate of 17,000 who were arrested at the time is not known yet.