Al-Tadamon massacre brings back memories of other massacres Syrians lived through

The world is still in shock over leaked photos and video clips of the massacre that took place in Al-Tadamon neighborhood in southern Damascus, where members of the district’s military intelligence division (division 227) killed 280 civilians.

The division members led the civilians to Al-Tadamon neighborhood, executed them one by one and threw them in a previously prepared pit to be burned. The perpetrator took video clips of the massacre as documentation of their horrifying crime.

This was not the first nor the last in a series of massacres committed by Syrian Regime forces and state-sponsored Shabiha militia. The photos of the massacre brought back memories of other massacres that Syrians lived through especially ones that took place in Ltamenah, Halfaya and Wadi Badmaya in Hama and Idlib.

Such massacres were committed during the first years of the revolution that was not in possession of any weapons and extremist groups were not present.

Victims were civilians who took out to the streets in protest of the regime and were killed in a field execution for violating state laws. Survivors of these massacres demand the International Community to take a stand against these crimes to prevent them and punish perpetrators.