Syria hostage Domenico Quirico 'treated like animal'

[cqo_000]

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Source: BBC

Domenico Quirico was freed on Sunday, after being held hostage for five months along with Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin da Prata.

In the pages of his newspaper, La Stampa, the 62-year-old described being subjected to two mock executions.

Mr Quirico said he and his fellow captive were kept "like animals, locked in small rooms with windows closed despite the great heat, thrown on straw mattresses, giving us the scraps from their meals to eat".

Once, Mr Quirico said he had borrowed a mobile phone from a wounded rebel fighter to call home. "It was the only gesture of pity I received in 152 days of captivity," he said.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24039309

[riderinthestorm]

1. And he was one of the rebels' sympathizers! That's probably why he's alive

instead of summarily executed. Treated like an animal....

[idwiyo]

2. K&R

[geek tragedy]

3. I wonder how he feels about the need for a humanitarian intervention.

Once, Mr Quirico said he had borrowed a mobile phone from a wounded rebel fighter to call home. "It was the only gesture of pity I received in 152 days of captivity," he said.

"Even children and old people tried to hurt us. Maybe I am putting this in overly ethical terms but in Syria I really found a country of evil," he said.

Paradoxically, he said, "the only ones who treated us with humanity were those closest to al-Qaeda", because they had an attitude towards prisoners - a code of conduct - that other captors lacked.

[Sunlei]

4. both lucky to get out of syria alive.

[Jesus Malverde]

5. Still missing Austin Tice and James Foley

Here is the last video of Tice at the hands of Mccains Militia.

[cosmicone]

6. and these are the rebels we are championing!! n/t

[blackspade]

7. Yay Syrian rebels!

It seems like there are two choices: shitty (Assad) and shittier (Rebels).
Unfortunately civilians are caught between these two packs of assholes.

[pinto]

8. Hi cqo_000,

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