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The human being can become extremely bloody.
It is in times of war that, encouraged by circumstances, he exhibits the most nihilistic cruelty of his.
There are plenty of examples.
Chance and courage allowed two investigators to obtain one of the most horrendous that have been known in the context of the bloody
war in Syria
.
His perseverance has made it possible to identify the culprit, and serve the courts, on a platter, the possibility of doing justice with a crime against humanity.
According to 'The Guardian', the medium that provides the story, it all started three years ago, when
a young and rookie militiaman, under the orders of the Syrian Government, received a laptop
used by one of the Intelligence agencies of the Bashar regime at the - Assad.
Despite the fear of being caught red-
handed
snooping through the files of such a sensitive machine, the boy clicked on one of them.
It was a video.
What he saw horrified him
.
He had to share it.
And then, flee in a hurry from
Syria
.
He was saved.
EL MUNDO has also agreed to the full recording.
For long minutes
a series of individuals in civilian clothes,
handcuffed and blindfolded, are accompanied for a few meters, pushed until they fall to the bottom of a ditch that they cannot see, and then shot
by a group of combatants, amid jocular comments about the situation.
The record of the file allows us to know that it was recorded on April 16, 2013 in Tadamon, a district on the outskirts of Damascus, in the south.
Some details of the recording are distressing.
The victims not only do not seem to be opposition combatants, in the context of the war that is shaking the country, but they are also unaware that they are being sent for
a 'ride', as in the Civil War
.
The assassins even make them believe that they are helping them save themselves from being shot.
One is encouraged to sprint toward the ditch to supposedly escape a sniper.
They laugh at them shortly before ruthlessly murdering them
.
At the end of the recording, 41 corpses
have been counted
.
Finally, the executioners pour fuel on the pile of dead and set fire to them.
A strategy to erase the traces of crime whose latest example has been seen in
Bucha
and Irpin, at the hands of soldiers from the same Russia that enabled al-Assad's forces to commit such crimes.
But this time there were impenetrable images of the act, someone willing to broadcast the recording and experts willing to follow the trail to point out those responsible.
Of the perpetrators, the most easily identifiable was a tall, thin individual with a beard, camouflage clothing, and a distinctive fisherman's hat.
Someone who, explains 'The Guardian', would be identified as
Amjad, a high command of branch 227, known as The Region
, one of the bloodiest military intelligence units.
But to know all this they would have to spend long and agonizing months.
And a person would have to split his personality to get the murderer's confession.
Researchers
Annsar Shahhoud
and
Ugur Ümit Üngör
, from the Center for Holocaust and Genocide at the University of Amsterdam, received the video from an opposition activist who was contacted by the militiaman who discovered the file.
Born into a community that identifies with the Syrian leader but is eager to hold him accountable, Shahhoud set out to reach the culprits by infiltrating them.
Her alibi would be a suggestive Facebook profile and a sexy speech.
Thus, Annsar Shahhoud became Anna Sh.
The opponent thirsty for revenge would be, for two years, an enthusiastic fan of the Syrian government and its cause against Islamist "terrorism"
on social networks , capable of idolizing and flattering sadistic Baathist fighters on a daily basis.
That had a price.
But, after months of virtual contacts with all kinds of Assadist agents, who while they came up with such admiration lowered their guard, she came to her prey.
But it was not enough.
Annsar, or rather Anna, had to befriend Amjad.
To penetrate her breastplate, reach her heart, cut it open and obtain the confession: "I killed a lot", she ended up saying one night.
"I took revenge," she acknowledged, referring to the fact that, shortly before the crimes shown in the video, her brother had died on the battlefield.
"I am proud of what I did"
, she would end up assuring her, when, now with her true personality, Annsar confronted her with the alleged crimes.
All the evidence of that massacre in Tadamon is already in the hands of Justice.
However, there is still a long way to go to completely break the wall of impunity built around the multiple massacres committed in Syria.
Earlier this year, a German court in Koblenz sentenced
two former Syrian government officials for multiple crimes against humanity for the first time
on the spot
, to prison terms
.
The researchers hope that the next could be Amjad.
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