Massacred Syrian children were ‘bound before being shot’

[tabatha]

Video of one group of the 49 children posted online showed some of them had their wrists bound with blue ties, a common substitute for handcuffs in the Arab world. Though it was not possible to verify whether this had been done before or after death, one activist group cited a witness saying the Alawite “Shabiha” or militia accused of the massacre did it to punish the children’s father.

“One eye witness, who is a lady in her late 50s from Houla, confirmed that the Shabiha handcuffed the children of Abbara Family, and told the father to look at their children, how they will be killed in front of his eyes, before they killed him,” a spokesman for the Syrian Network of Human Rights told The Daily Telegraph.

Activists recording the deaths say that the majority of the 108 people who died lived in a string of eight houses belonging to an extended family called Abdulrazzaq, of which the Abbaras are thought to be part.

Human Rights Watch, which called on Monday for the establishment of a United Nations commission of inquiry to investigate the killings, said it had interviewed one ten-year-old boy from the Abdulrazzaq family who survived by hiding in a barn.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9295268/Massacred-Syrian-children-were-bound-before-being-shot.html

[Drale]

1. If there is anyone alive today

that deserves a very painful and public execution, it is al-Assad. His skin should be peeled off, layer by layer. Each of his organs should be branded and he should then be burned to death. He deserves nothing less and a whole lot more.

[David__77]

2. The logic of revenge.

It sounds very much like "anything goes."

[Drale]

3. Massacring adults is bad enough but

when you start killing children, and not even just killing them, tying them up and then killing them, thats where I draw the line. Everything is on the table now, anything goes, there are no more rules. I'm sorry, I'm usually a very non-violent person but child killers are the worst of the worst of humanity and receive no mercy from me.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. How about the ones who drop bombs on them in their sleep?

I'm referring to the US military in Afghanistan and Pakistan, of course.

It's convenient to have even worse child-killers to deflect our outrage at, but I'm a firm believer in cleaning up one's own house first.

[unreadierLizard]

6. I know you're trying to find every reason to hate the "imperialist" US

But when you start butchering children just because you want to crack down on those rebels, you need to be stopped at all costs.

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. No, I am pointing out that our government engages in acts of murderous violence.

And wondering why we work up such outrage against the Syrian regime while complacently ignoring what our own government is doing.

Or, maybe that's not fair. Maybe the posters who swarm this topic are also very upset with what the US does. You know: drone attacks, killer night raids, bombing houses and killing families, that kind of thing. I just don't see them post about that very much.

[Odin2005]

4. That's what the Romanovs probably believed.

*runs*