Reactions to the video of the Al-Tadamon neighborhood massacre in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which was published by the British newspaper "The Guardian", are still continuing on social media, as Syrian and Arab activists published a number of pictures of Amjad Al-Youssef (the accused of the massacre) and he and those who appeared with him. In the video clip, which came as evidence of what the Syrian regime forces did against peaceful demonstrators at the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2013.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the British newspaper The Guardian published an investigation - by its correspondent in the Middle East, Martin Shulov - showing that on April 16, 2013, a group of armed men affiliated with the Syrian regime forces executed 41 civilians, including 7 women and a number of children, and then threw them into a pit, before setting them on fire. The fires in their bodies.
The video clip showed Syrian regime elements asking a number of civilians to run, while their hands were tied behind their backs and their eyes were blindfolded, before they shot them.
The photos also showed civilians being taken and thrown into a pit and shot at.
The photos show Syrian regime elements stacking the bodies of the civilian victims on top of each other, throwing car tires and wood over them, pouring gasoline on them and then burning them.
The criminal terrorist Amjad Youssef, one of the elements of Assad's sectarian militias and a participant in the solidarity massacre in Damascus in 2013 # Solidarity_massacre pic.twitter.com/JhP4zS1KkE
— Ali Sy (@Sy_N_18) April 27, 2022
According to the newspaper's report, the video was captured by a member of the Syrian regime forces after giving him a laptop for repair, and the video clip was found in a folder on the device.
According to the press investigation, the element (the source) leaked the video to the Syrian activist Ansar Shaheed and Professor Ugur Umit Ugur from the Center for the Holocaust and Extermination at the Dutch University of Amsterdam, where both witnesses and Ugur continued to work for 3 years following the story and finding the person who appears to be killing Civilians and their bodies burned, as the video clip shows.
Najeeb Al-Halabi is one of the people who appeared in the video of the solidarity massacre pic.twitter.com/u0ZnxeQdih
— Enas (@Enas_jom3aa) April 28, 2022
According to the history of the video, the massacre took place during the period when the atmosphere of the revolutionaries’ preparations to enter the capital, Damascus and start the battle to overthrow the regime prevailed, as the regime forces controlled two-thirds of Al-Tadamon neighborhood and the opposition controlled the rest of the neighborhood. It was close to the line of contact with the opposition on Daaboul Street, opposite the "Othman Mosque", behind the "Al-Hasnaa Hall".
The Guardian’s investigation recounts accurate details of how the two researchers investigated how witnesses and Umit reached the identity of the perpetrator of the massacre, whose name was Amjad Youssef and was found by searching for him on the Facebook social networking site, and after several interviews with witnesses who impersonated a woman who supported the regime. Al-Assad, Amjad, confessed to committing several killings, under the pretext of avenging the killing of his younger brother, who was killed in 2013.