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Showing posts with label Video footage showed secretly filmed and aired on British television on Monday what it said were Syrian. Show all posts
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3/05/2012

TV: Video of a hospital in Homs shows torture

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Video footage showed secretly filmed and aired on British television on Monday what it said were Syrian patients subjected to torture by the medical staff at a government hospital in the Syrian city of Homs.
The axis of Homs intensive military campaign to protest against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The United Nations says that more than 7,500 civilians have died in about a year of political violence in Syria.
The British Channel Four television it had obtained a video footage of the horrific scenes in the military hospital in Homs. Photos and employee of this footage, secretly and smuggled out of the French news photographer known only as "Manny."
He said the employee who filmed the video for Manny, "I saw detainees being tortured with electricity shocks and beatings with whips and batons and broken legs. And they play their feet to break their legs."
He added: "They are conducting surgical operations without anesthesia ... I saw them beat the heads of detainees in the walls. Restrict patients in the family. And depriving them of water. Others have linked their genitals to prevent them from urinating."
The video showed that the fourth television channel said it could not verify it independently wounded blindfolded chained in the family. There was a rubber whip and electric wire on a table in one of the wings of the hospital. Some patients presented signs of what it's like being beaten.
The hospital employee said that the men were some of the soldiers who refused to carry out orders and other civilians. He noted that the youngest was 14 years old.
The Syrian army out "clean up" on Monday in the city of Homs, where he was the Red Cross is trying to reach Pope Amr former stronghold of the opposition.
He accused opposition activists of Syrian troops torture and killing of civilians and other crimes but their reports are difficult to verify because of government restrictions on independent media.
Source: Reuters

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