http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/untold_atrocities.pdf
The report, published by Save the Children, is a collection of testimonies from children living in refugee camps on the borders of Syria which depicts a most disturbing picture of the horrors and extreme atrocities that children have been through in the conflict in Syria.
For those of you too busy to read, let me highlight a few of the testimonies:
*Khalid 15 years old said, "They hung me up from the ceiling by my wrists, with my feet off the
ground. Then I was beaten. I passed out. I passed out from the severe pain of hanging like that, and from the beating. They took me down and threw cold water on my face to wake me up. Then they took turns stubbing out their cigarettes on me."
* Wael, 16 years old recounted "These children were too weak to even cry. They just lay on the floor. They were also subjected to repeated beating with sticks, worse than us. I knew a boy called Ala’a. He was part of that group. He was only six years old. He didn’t understand what was happening. I’d say that this six-year-old boy was tortured more than anyone else in that room. He wasn’t given food or water for three days, and he was so weak he used to faint all the time. He was beaten regularly. I watched him die. He only survived for three days and then he simply died. He was terrified all the time. They treated his body as though he was a dog".
Moussa 15 years old said, " There were hundreds of us in prison – I was in a big cell with the other children. The youngest ones were nine or ten, they had been captured. I was beaten up every day, and they used electricity too. In prison, when someone died, they kept hitting the body. There were dead bodies in my cell too – they’d been there for a long time and they stank. They were decomposing – there were maggots. Eventually, they threw me out. They carried me out on a blanket. I couldn’t move".
Anti-Assad Syrian groups claim close to 2,000 children have died in the conflict so far. In July, a British-based group called War Child said the Syrian conflict is “disturbingly unique” in the deliberate targeting of children, citing reports of hundreds of children being detained by the regime.
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| source: christemmanuel.org |
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| source: rightnow.io |
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| source: dailymail.co.uk |
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