‘I Put My Brother’s Blood All Over Me and Acted Like I Was Dead’: Syrian Boy Describes Family’s Massacre
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This image made from amateur video, released by the Houla Media Office purports to show 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed, a survivor of the Houla massacre that began Friday. (Image: AP/Shaam News Network via AP video)
BEIRUT (The Blaze/AP) — When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor when a bullet missed him, soaked his clothes with his brother’s blood and fooled the killers into thinking he was already dead.
The Syrian boy tried to stop himself from trembling, even as the gunmen, with long beards and shaved heads, killed his parents and all four of his siblings, one by one.
The youngest to die was Ali’s brother, 6-year-old Nader. His small body bore two bullet holes – one in his head, another in his back.
“I put my brother’s blood all over me and acted like I was dead,” Ali told The Associated Press over Skype on Wednesday, his raspy voice steady and matter-of-fact, five days after the killing spree that left him both an orphan and an only child.
Ali is one of the few survivors of a weekend massacre in Houla, a collection of poor farming villages and olive groves in Syria’s central Homs province. More than 100 people were killed, many of them women and children who were shot or stabbed in their houses.
The killings brought immediate, worldwide condemnation of President Bashar Assad, who has unleashed a violent crackdown on an uprising that began in March 2011. Activists say as many as 13,000 people have been killed since the revolt began.
U.N. investigators and witnesses blame at least some of the Houla killings on shadowy gunmen known as shabiha who operate on behalf of Assad’s government.
Recruited from the ranks of Assad’s Alawite religious community, the militiamen enable the government to distance itself from direct responsibility for the execution-style killings, torture and revenge attacks that have become hallmarks of the shabiha.
In many ways, the shabiha are more terrifying than the army and security forces, whose tactics include shelling residential neighborhoods and firing on protesters. The swaggering gunmen are deployed specifically to brutalize and intimidate Assad’s opponents.
Activists who helped collect the dead in the aftermath of the Houla massacre described dismembered bodies in the streets, and row upon row of corpses shrouded in blankets.
“When we arrived on the scene we started seeing the scale of the massacre,” said Ahmad al-Qassem, a 35-year-old activist. “I saw a kid with his brains spilling out, another child who was no more than 1 year old who was stabbed in the head. The smell of death was overpowering.”
The regime denies any responsibility for the Houla killings, blaming them on terrorists. And even if the shabiha are responsible for the killings, there is no clear evidence that the regime directly ordered the massacre in a country spiraling toward civil war.
As witness accounts begin to leak out, it remains to be seen what, exactly, prompted the massacre. Although the Syrian uprising has been among the deadliest of the Arab Spring, the killings in Houla stand out for their sheer brutality and ruthlessness.
According to the U.N., which is investigating the attack, most of the victims were shot at close range, as were Ali’s parents and siblings. The attackers appeared to be targeting the most vulnerable people, such as children and the elderly, to terrorize the population.
This type of massacre – even more than the shelling and mortar attacks that have become daily occurrences in the uprising – is a sign of a new level of violence. By most accounts, the gunmen descended on Houla from an arc of nearby villages, making the deaths all the more horrifying because the victims could have known their attackers.
According to activists in the area, the massacre came after the army pounded the villages with artillery and clashed with local rebels following anti-regime protests. Several demonstrators were killed, and the rebels were forced to withdraw. The pro-regime gunmen later stormed in, doing the bulk of the killing.
Syrian activist Maysara Hilaoui said he was at home when the massacre in Houla began. He said there were two waves of violence, one starting at 5 p.m. Friday and a second at 4 a.m. Saturday.
“The shabiha took advantage of the withdrawal of rebel fighters,” he said. “They started entering homes and killing the young as well as the old.”
Ali, the 11-year-old, said his mother began weeping the moment about 11 gunmen entered the family home in the middle of the night after arriving in a military armored vehicle and a bus. The men led Ali’s father and oldest brother outside.
“My mother started screaming ‘Why did you take them? Why did you take them?’” Ali said.
Soon afterward, he said, the gunmen killed Ali’s entire family.
As Ali huddled with his youngest siblings, a man in civilian clothes took Ali’s mother to the bedroom and shot her five times in the head and neck.
“Then he left the bedroom. He used his flashlight to see in front of him,” Ali said. “When he saw my sister Rasha, he shot her in the head while she was in the hallway.”
Ali had been hiding near his brothers Nader, 6, and Aden, 8. The gunmen shot both of them, killing them instantly. He then fired at Ali but missed.
“I was terrified,” Ali said, speaking from Houla, where relatives have taken him in. “My whole body was trembling.”
The Guardian has more from their own interview with Ali:
The boy said he waited until the armoured personnel carriers had moved from his street, then ran to his uncle’s house nearby, where he hid. He said the same militiamen knocked on the door minutes later, asking his uncle if he knew who lived in the house that they just rampaged through.
“They didn’t know he was my relative and when they were talking to him they were describing six people dead in my house. They included me. They thought I was dead.”
Throughout a 15-minute conversation, the boy remained calm and detached until he was pressed on how he knew the gunmen were pro-regime militia men, known as al-Shabiha. The irregular forces have been widely accused by residents of Houla of entering homes and slaughtering families. At least 32 of the dead are children and many of them appear to have been killed at close range.
“They got out of tanks and they had guns and knives,” he repeated. “Some of them were wearing civilian clothes, some army clothes.
“Why are you asking me who they were? I know who they were. We all know it. They were the regime army and people who fight with them. That is true.”
Ali is among the few survivors of the massacre, although it was impossible to independently corroborate his story. The AP contacted him through anti-regime activists in Houla who arranged for an interview with the child over Skype.
The violence had haunting sectarian overtones, according to witness accounts. The victims lived in the Houla area’s Sunni Muslim villages, but the shabiha forces came from a nearby area populated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Most shabiha belong to the Alawite sect – like the Assad family and the ruling elite. This ensures the loyalty of the gunmen to the regime, because they fear they would be persecuted if the Sunni majority gains the upper hand.
Sunnis make up most of Syria’s 22 million people, as well as the backbone of the opposition. The opposition insists the movement is entirely secular.
It was not possible to reach residents of the Alawite villages on Wednesday. Communications with much of the area have been cut off, and many residents have fled.
Al-Qassem, the activist who helped gather corpses in Houla, said the uprising has unleashed deep tensions between Sunnis and Alawites.
“Of course the regime worked hard to create an atmosphere of fear among Alawites,” said al-Qassem, who is from the Houla area, although not one of the villages that came under attack over the weekend. “There is a deep-seated hatred. The regime has given Alawites the illusion that the end of the regime will spell the end of their villages and lives.”
He said the army has been pouring weapons into the Alawite areas.
“Every house in each of those Alawite villages has automatic rifles. The army has armed these villages, each home according to the number of people who live there,” he said, “whereas in Houla, which has a population of 120,000, you can only find 500 0r 600 armed people. There is an imbalance.”
Days after the attack, many victims remain missing.
Ali can describe the attack on his family. But al-Qassem said the full story of the massacre may never emerge.
“There are no eyewitnesses of the massacre,” he said. “The eyewitnesses are all dead.”
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Passerby
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:33amOne factor, not mentioned, that’s rather important…
Is that the Alawites never ever accept converts for any reason whatsoever, including marriage. BOTH parents have to be Alawite.
This adds that racial/genetic dimension. True or not (probably true) they don’t consider themselves related.
If there’s anything that will cause that horrific group violence frenzy more than the perceived threat of a threatening different religion, it’s the perceived threat of a threatening different “race”.
And it’s both.
Think Rwanda, with the firepower of the Industrial Revolution instead of machetes.
Report Post »2barbraw
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:29amIt’s not bloodshed that infuriates Middle Eastern Muslims, its Happy Meal Toys Yes, http://www.bestofmandel.com/ see picture here, article
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 6:20amSo miliitant Islamic Muslims slaughtered these people because they weren’t “Muslim”? These people certainly are not Christians who are also getting slaughtered and their churches burned down.
It looks like our TAXPAYER DOLLARS (BILLIONS AND BILLIONS over the years) are being given to Iraq and other Muslims countries who use it to kill NON-Muslims and those not Muslim enough.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:23amNo no, the Phonecian Alawites murdered the Muslim children. The Christians are on the Alawite’s side againt the Muslims. Many Christians are fleeing the country because they fear the Muslims will blame them too for what the Phonecian Alawites are doing.
No black and white good guys and bad guys.
Just the suffering of the innocent, soon to be the mass genocide of the innocent.
And the 50 WMD sites, which could end civilization, and civil rights, as we know it.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:12pmThis again, it’s very good on who the Alawites are, and what is going on…
http://www.danielpipes.org/191/the-alawi-capture-of-power-in-syria
Another excellent in depth article…
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=51978&pageid=13&pagename=Ana\
lysis
This is about as close as you can get, horse’s mouth for the Alawite religion/history on the internet, one’s a big file, not easy reading like the above…
Report Post »http://www.scribd.com/doc/55596306/Nusayri-5-book-compilation
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56577578/Al-Husayn-ibn-Hamdan-al-Khasibi-A-Historical-Biography-of-the-Founder-of-the-Nusayri-Alawite-Sect
RedDawn2012
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:55pmAssad should be indicted for mass murder and genocide by an international court and a warrant put out for his arrest. A $20 million bounty for his arrest, dead or alive, wouldn’t hurt.
Report Post »Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:43pmMore work from the “Religion of Peace”. Shows what true cowards they are, killing the young and elderly.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:16pmThey aren’t Muslim…
“Mainstream Muslims, Sunni and Shi’i alike, traditionally disregarded ‘Alawi
efforts at dissimulation; they viewed ‘Alawis as beyond the pale of Islam – as
non-Muslims. Hamza ibn ‘Ali, who saw the religion’s appeal lying in its
perversity, articulated this view: “The first thing that promotes the wicked
Nusayri is the fact that all things normally prohibited to humans – murder,
stealing, lying, calumny, fornication, pederasty – is permitted to he or she who
accepts ['Alawi doctrines].” Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the Thomas
Aquinas of Islam, wrote that the ‘Alawis “apostatize in matters of blood, money,
marriage, and butchering, so it is a duty to kill them.”
Ahmad ibn Taymiya (1268-1328), the still highly influential Sunni writer of
Report Post »Syrian origins, wrote in a fatwa (religious decision) that “the Nusayris are
more infidel than Jews or Christians, even more infidel than many polytheists.
They have done greater harm to the community of Muhammad than have the warring
infidels such as the Franks, the Turks, and others. To ignorant Muslims they
pretend to be Shi’is, though in reality they do not believe in God or His
prophet or His book.” Ibn Taymiya warned of the mischief their enmity can do:
“Whenever possible, they spill the blood of Muslims. They are always the worst
enemies of the Muslims.” In conclusion, he argued that “war and punishment in
accordance with Islamic law against them are among the greatest o
Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:20pm…The Islamic religion reserves a special hostility for ‘Alawis. Like other
post-Islamic sects (such as the Baha’is and Ahmadis), they are seen to
contradict the key Islamic tenet that God’s last revelation went to Muhammad,
and this Muslims find utterly unacceptable. Islamic law acknowledges the
legitimacy of Judaism and Christianity because those religions preceded Islam;
accordingly, Jews and Christians may maintain their faiths. But ‘Alawis are
denied this privilege. Indeed, the precepts of Islam call for apostates like the
‘Alawis to be sold into slavery or executed. In the nineteenth century, a Sunni
shaykh, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, issued a fatwa to the effect that Muslims may
freely take ‘Alawi property and lives; and a British traveler records being
told, “these Ansayrii, it is better to kill one than to pray a whole day.”
Frequently persecuted-some 20,000 were massacred in 1317 and half that number in
Report Post »1516…”
mooshoo
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:55pmIt seems to me that we – the West – are barking up the wrong tree.
Report Post »The conflict in Syria is not that complex: The Sunni majority is rebelling against the ruling Alawites,
who are an off-shoot of the Shia Muslims. Sunnis are roughly 80%, Alawites are about 15%…
If we help the Sunnis and they prevail, a wholesale massacre of the Alawites may follow…
Now, are we prepared to handle such eventuality?
As for the case mentioned above, the massacre could well be the work of the rebels.
Simply, to cause the uproar that will lead to US getting sucked in.
Me, for one, I do not trust EITHER side.
Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:42pmIt sounds cruel, but I think the best case scenario is for the Sunnis & Shia to slaughter one another until they come to the same realization that the Europeans did in 1648 at the conclusion of the 30 Years War. Then maybe we can live among them without fear.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:26pmThe Alawites will prevail. And it’s more like 70/30. Sunnis are 70% and everyone else, including the 12% Alawites and the Christians are against them because they fear them.
Report Post »Force2bewreckin
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:06pmThis more propaganda people. The kids quote could be ” I like puppy’s” for all we know. The blaze is just another propaganda machine. If they were fighting the good fight their top story would be about B1lderberg.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:42pmYa, the Bilderberg meetings run the World, because China & the Saudi Princes let them. Ya right!
Report Post »Airb0rne4325
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:47pmCheck out the videos on youtube and tell me there is not a massacre going on. Just type in Syria and you will have all you can stomach and then some.
Report Post »johndoesoetoro
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:54pmBilderbergs are indeed a big problem. Imagine, if you could remember and write down everything corrupt, incompetent, and evil that we’ve learned about Obama, his administration, and the left-wing in general… What would the list look like?
This is what it would look like…
Report Post »Google… Legacy of the American Trojan Horse
Over 8,000 facts… See how many you knew.
Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:20pmWalkabout nails it.
Report Post »Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:41pmLet me guess, you also think the Holocaust was propaganda. You believe the lies of the left, but dispute the truth. You are blind to reason.
Why don’t you travel to Syria and film how there is nothing going on there and since there is no violence whatsoever, you have no fear of being killed.
Report Post »JustJP
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:54pmWhen is someone gonna put a bullet in Assad’s dome?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:40pmApparently not Obama. Sarkozy & the Saudis asked him to assist & he refused. They asked us to suppress Syrian air defenses so the Saudi & French air forces could wipe out Assad & his command staff at his mountaintop palace/command post. Barack Obama refused.
Question: If we toppled Gadaffi, then why not Assad?
Answer: We would find Iraqi WMDs.
We must not find those until after the election!
Report Post »Wartface
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:51pmNothing new here… Muslim‘s killing Muslim’s has been going on for thousands of years. They do that when they don’t have infidels to kill.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:02pmEuropeans did a pretty good job of killing each other thru the 30 Years War. That appalled them so they invented the Enlightenment & instituted rules that they “mostly” followed, but they kept warring.
Mostly. I mean come on the Spanish wiped out a colony of Frenchmen in Northern Florida or Carolinas as gift to the French King because they were Huguenots.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:19pmYou can blame Hitler on the 30 Years War it left such a scar on the German people. All that militarism.
Yeah, Byzantium was sacked after all those centuries by the Christian Crusaders, not the Muslims. They made the mistake of trusting them and opened the gates. The wealth of Byzantium is now in Italy.
Report Post »scarebear83
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:46pmBless his heart. He’s been through such a horrific ordeal. If there was anyway I could adopt that boy I would in a heartbeat. My thoughts and prayers go out to him.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:15pmThe Muslim Brotherhood is about to have an army of their own, the Egyptian Army. And the Turks are Sunni Muslims like those being slaughtered too.
Other than the dozens of WMD sites, with horrific nerve gas and bioweapons, it’s their problem, not ours. (Other than someone inevitably attacking Israel.)
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:44pmSome of those WMDs are ones the Syrians built or bought & some of those came from Iraq.
Of course some of us wouldn’t want to find those. It might affect election results.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:24pmWhile these stories are horrific and heartbreaking I don’t believe we should get involved in yet another war.We have been at war now for ten plus years with many service members doing multiple deployments and it’s time to scale it back in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the case of Syria let the Syrian people fight for their freedom from their tyrant.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:04pmYeah, we don’t want to have anything to do with this one, other than dealing with the 50 WMD sites if it looks like Assad is losing control. Terrorists get some of that, civilization (and our civil rights) will end as we know it.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 7:44pmPasserby
Yeah, we don’t want to have anything to do with this one, other than dealing with the 50 WMD sit
Yes, & Obama’s plan is for 5,000 Russian soldiers to guard those. In a way that is a good plan. In another way it ensures an Assad victory.
It also ensures we will not find the Iraqi WMDs in Syria.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:15pmHi Walkabout,
Anything that secures those WMD works for me. The bottom line is Saddam could make industrial quantities of even the more difficult Bioweapons in weeks to months according to the 50 Nobel Prize winners in science of the Federation of American Scientists. Moot point if he had any at the moment, the sanctions were collapsing.
The only happy ending I can envision is to give the Alawites their own country on the coast, what the wanted all along since the French stabbed them in the back and stuck them with the Muslims. Long shot everyone would agree to it, but what else is there? If open genocide starts, it’s gonna look a lot better.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:43pmMuslims killing muslims is no oddity,….they have done it efficiently for years. It is not something we need to interfere with. We should not help the rebels in Syria too much. We need to give them just enought arms to keep them viable and nothing else. As long as we keep the war going on between them it will keep them from attacking our interests.Also,..the ‘rebels’ are NOT fighting for democracy. They are probably Muslim brotherhood members or Hamas….or even Hizbollah.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:49pmAlawites aren’t Muslim. More Christian than Muslim. Celebrate Christmas, Easter, Mary, John the Baptist, etc. etc. Always on the side of the Christians, from the Crusades to when France created Syria and abanoned them to the cruel mercies of the Muslims.
Not that they aren’t being rather uspeakable themselves.
The question you want to ask yourself is how come the Muslims blow up pizza parlors full of Israeli women and children, but even despite the slaughter, never ever blow up pizza parlors full of Alawites?
(Hint: The “Civil War” everyone keeps talking about would be more like a slaughter, the Muslims wouldn’t stand a chance. If it came down to mutual slaughter of each other’s women and children, which it would, obviously, the Alawites would harvest them like wheat.)
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:53pmPasserby
Alawites are a fusion of Christian Muslim belief like the Druze. It is no different in than in India where you have peoples that are a fusion of Hindu & Muslim belief or early Europeans we a mix if pagan & Christian.
Turkey could wipe Syria if it wanted. But if it had to contend with Iran too it is more doubtful. 10% of Turkey is Alawite with almost a 1/3rd being Kurd (Mountain Turk or so Turkish chauvinists would like to believe). If the war was prolonged or Turkey faced significant reversals the Turkish state might not survive. there big risks all thew way around.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:56pmthe Egyptian army would have a hard time getting to Syria. they would have to go thru Jordan. It would be suicide for Israel to let the Egyptian Army to pass thru. How good are Egyptian logistics?
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 8:10pmHey Walkabout,
Alawites are Phonecians, and worship the same thing the Phonecians worshipped. Got some influence from Zorastrianism, and maybe Mandaeanism and Mani/Gospel of Thomas. They pretend to be Christian and Muslim as protective coloration.
http://www.danielpipes.org/191/the-alawi-capture-of-power-in-syria
Morocco, the other location of the Phonecians is also run by the Alawites.
Yeah, all Egypt could do is ship them to Turkey and join Turkey. Turkey definitely doesn’t have the stomach for it at the moment, and after they stabbed us in the back in Iraq, it’s their problem (other than those 50 WMD sites).
But this could turn into something like Rwanda with wholesale butchery and then all bets are off.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:20pmToo bad this brave little boy leaves no impression on pretender-in-chief Obama and failed secretary of state Clinton.
Report Post »Really sad.
:(
rickc34
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:34pmPoor little guy. I cannot imagine what that must have been like. But it is coming to america unless we change paths. Muslim on muslim.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:51pmWhen GOOD men do nothing evil fluorishes. In Obama’s case, who cares more about political sensitivies, than providing, at least, military aid, he is being shown for what he is. A political opportunist. An ammoral COWARD! As he said during his Hot Mic moment with Medvedev, he will have more flexibility after re-election. This is just a TASTE of what our world is in store for,if he is. God, help us all!
Report Post »AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:18pmThis is despicable and evil and horrendous, I cannot use words to describe it. I pray for this little boy and all of the innocent people over there.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:18pmSince when did The Blaze get so sympathetic toward Al-Qaeda rebels trying to take over Syria all of a sudden?
Isn’t Al-Qaeda still the enemy?
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Report Post »“Back in mid-February, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned that al-Qaeda had “infiltrated” the Syrian opposition. At roughly the same time, videos began emerging on the internet that clearly revealed just what an understatement–to put it mildly–Clapper’s observation represented. The videos show Syrian rebel brigades proudly posing with the al-Qaeda flag and protestors holding it high.”
Breitbart.com: “Al-Qaeda Ladies’ Choir Struts Its Stuff in Rebel Syria”
hi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:08pmHorrendous. Prayers for the little guy.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:07pmThese animals need exterminated. There is a Syrian pastor working at our church who is trying to get his family out of Syria. He got his oldest daughter by our stupid State Dept. denied the visas for his wife and other 2 children he hasn’t seen in 5 years. Please pray for him (Bro. Nadal) He is a good and godly man.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:51pmHow’s that Islam Spring working out?Obama must be proud.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:49pmmy heart breaks for this child and the others growing up in this country, pray for them.
Report Post »BPMaine
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:44pmThat really is a peaceful – loving religious region of the world huh?
I pray – to the real God, for this child’s safety after speaking out…
bp
Report Post »Sharon Rose
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:38pmsick animals
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