Does This Not Outrage You?

This blog is written by the Revolting Syrian. If you want to read the original post please refer to this link: 

http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/post/50495350134/does-this-not-outrage-you 

I am sorry for the content for this post, but I was outraged because of the attention made to the video showing a criminal pervert cutting a dead man and eating his heart while thousands of videos showing horrific and repulsive crimes by ASSad thugs were treated as natural actions. I believe that there is a profound problem in the way  many in the world perceives us. As if they have this image of a Middle Eastern monster terrorist, and they make great efforts to get anything that proves their point no matter how such quest seems inhuman, unethical and unjust, no matter how the rest of us denounce and outraged by such actions. Such video made viral to stress the orientalist fallacy image many people around the world have for us. This stereotypical image also might suggests that it is natural that such barbaric nations have dictatorships taking all necessary measures just to keep these beasts under control. Don’t anyone have any shame anymore?

Does This Not Outrage You?

Much has been said over the past two days in the world press about a sick video showing an FSA commander tearing the heart out of a dead Hezbullah fighter (sent to murder Syrians) in Qusayr, Homs and then eating it. 

The video is vile. The act is vicious. The cannibalism is inexcusable.

However, the ‘outrage’ over this video has been proclaimed by Human Rights Watch to be “the most disgusting atrocity filmed in the Syrian Civil War”. Human Rights Watch is also quoted in dozens of the world’s most widely read newspapers, television programs and news media networks stating the same. The media in general has taken the same attitude, saying that this single video, is the worst thing to have befallen the Syrian Revolution (they incorrectly call it a civil war).

Honestly? This video is the worst you people have seen come out of Syria? If that’s the case, then allow me to educate you for a moment.

Countless keyboard pontificators, armchair generals, faux-leftists and of course, Assad’s supporters have pounced on this video, waved it like a flag in the wind, and declared that every Syrian who is not on Assad’s side of the massacre (again, not civil war) is a ‘dirty cannibal terrorist’. And yes, they apply that label to babies, children, women, the elderly and the 90,000+ martyrs that Assad’s forces have killed since March 2011.

Where was your outrage, dear fellow humans, when all of the videos below were released? I categorized (that’s how many there are now) them for you below. Can you watch them? Can you bear it? Can you stand it? Or will you look away? Toss our martyrs aside and forget us, or even worse, tell us that our 90,000 dead are all the result of ‘terrorists’ and/or the most elaborate ‘hoax’ of all time. Which is what the Assad regime has said since the first protesters took to the streets in Daraa on March 15th, 2011.

The videos below represent a tiny fraction of the entire body of videos released from Syria and represent a much smaller fraction of what actually happens across the country that is not recorded. I can say, with full, and disgusting, confidence that the Syrian Revolution, turned massacre, is the largest ever mass murder of the Information Age, where there is literally hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of videos to attest to that fact, many of them recorded and released in near real-time.

You can continue your outrage over the video of a cannibal ripping the heart out of a terrorist sent to fight on behalf of a sectarian warlord with the sole aim of empowering a dictator so that he may resume his reign of terror on the people of my country. However, you have no right to label it the ‘most disgusting atrocity’. No right whatsoever.

*These videos are by no means all or even the worst to have emerged from Syria. They are a sample that I have been able to find in the last 2 hours. 

LEAKED VIDEOS OF ASSAD’S FORCES TORTURING AND EXECUTING CIVILIANS AND FSA: It is worth it to note that of the few videos posted below, Assad’s regime has not even gone as far as to acknowledge their very existence (of the videos), much less hold those in the videos accountable (since the regime is the one ordering such atrocities). It is also worthy to note that most major crimes by the FSA have been acknowledged and admitted. Even though the FSA is not a formal organization, nor does it have any type of structure or tangible line of command. The FSA even published a statement about the cannibal video here. Something Assad never has, or ever will do.

Assad’s forces torture and execute a group of men. Very difficult to watch.

Assad’s forces beat a middle-aged man in the street and tell him “I’ll let you see your children again if you let us f**k your wife” to which he responds “my wife is my crown” Then they execute him.

Assad’s forces stab and stone two men to death. Horrific video, tough to watch.

Assad’s forces beat this man with metal rods, bricks and then finally execute him while saying ““F**k Your Sister! … F**k Your God You Beast! …. F**k Your Prophet … Take Your Holy Book & Shove it Up our Ass! …. I Want To F**k Your God!

After beating and humiliating him, they lay him on the ground and execute him

After brutally torturing them, then executing them, Assad’s forces cut the genitals off these men and place it in their mouths.

 

Asasd’s forces beat two men to death, laughing as they do it. They even set fire to one of the men’s heads.

Assad’s forces torture a man in Banyas, Tartous

Of course, we have Hamza Al Khatib, the horrific torture he endured after being arrested (he was 13) included chopping off his genitals, breaking most of his bones, being shot, electrocuted and beaten. We thought, back in 2011, that this event would lead to world intervention and help. This was before the people of Syria took up arms to defend themselves and before a further 8,000 children were killed.

 

I Take a Stand Beside The Forgotten Humanity

I became a bit grumpy lately from being a human, I started to feel disgusted because of what people are doing to Syria. I don’t want to be a human anymore, just want to rip my skin and transform into another being, another entity, another creature. I couldn’t stand any of the things I love and used to do whenever I feel agitating. I did not want to talk to anyone, did not want to listen to my favorite music, did not want to write and did not to be with my cats. I did not want to see any face. Maybe I’ll rib my heart out and be a machine so I won’t feel horrified or mesmerized by the ugly face of humanity in my country.

Sometimes I think that all the monsters and evil creators we read about in fiction or legends, are just a manifestations of the worst images of human ego. Just today I was reading how some doctors in Turkey are treating Syrian injured refugees inhumanly because these doctors support ASSad regime. Some of these doctors cut a man’s limb more than  needed, some are cursing and humiliating these poor refugees. A doctor told a patient to not scream from pain because he is a Syrian and he does not have the right to complain! After knowing this I thought to myself: How can some one’s mind be so mixed-up to take advantage and continue breaking any weak and fragile human just because he can? Or just because he does not like the patient? What does the world expect when these crushed spirits return back to life?

But what is happening in Turkey is just a very very small part of what Syrian regime’s supporters did to innocent people. The current violence is the result of ASSad regime’s endeavors to bestialize and dehumanize society, not just in the past 2 years of revolution, but during the past 4 decades of ASSad family rule. The family couldn’t stand to not mutilate the society and turn it into a reflection its freakish existence.

When the Syrian peaceful protests started, I was not able to understand why would someone be killed for lifting up a rose for an army officer or a police officer asking him to join the humans, the people. When an army officer shoots a peaceful protestor without thinking, this means that this officer affirms his status as a tool for the terrorist authority, by that he became a reason for spreading violence, he transforms into a machine. Thousands of young men, women and children were killed. Some were for protesting, some for being a relative or a family member to a protestor, some were killed just to scare protestors, in other words: A sample. But those who were killed are the lucky ones, its is better to be killed than being arrested. The tools they will use in torture does not exist in God’s hell. Is this human? To break someone’s back? To melt a face with acid? To put a mouse inside a woman’s vagina? To use a drill on a child till death? To leave a prisoner’s wound to rot and devoured by maggots? That is why those who support ASSad regime make me vomit, they are not even humans. What kind of deformity is this? They say it is a matter of the freedom of political opinion, but this is never policy, it is called genocide, and it is a matter of the freedom to kill. Yes it came to this, to the most primitive urge, kill for fun, kill to feel important and strong, kill to scare others. How I feel sad for what might be a distorted future for my country.

This is Banyas – Syria at the start of peaceful protests. Few days ago a savage massacre took place in this area committed by ASSad troops and loyalties.

And you want to talk about the armed rebels? It was foreseeable. It was inevitable that people will carry arms, it was inevitable that hatred will spread by the actions of ASSad thugs, it was inevitable that some will try to defend himself with a weapon, and it was inevitable that the killing for fun by ASSad mobs will became a battle for existence because no one anymore want these halfwits live between them without getting justice. It is also inevitable that with weapons, humans deteriorate to their most primal entities. But this is exactly what ASSad mafia want: their hatred to spread, to leave a legacy of insanity. No country shells entire towns or cities with mass destruction weapons to kill a dozen of “terrorists,” such state must be led by fools, and such fools are not fit to lead.

For all this, we cannot allow this to happen. As this family perishes, its legacy of death and madness must be buried with it. The revolution have to produce a new value if it aught to succeed, a value of reconciliation and forgiveness, a value of healing and moving forward, a value of standing hand by hand united as Syrians. There are many people helping each others, there is love and sacrifice, but the mad hatred started to affect those who are in so much pain because they lost all, even themselves. There is a struggle between matter and anti-matter, a struggle between a promising beauty and existing ugliness.

Will the monsters be held responsible for making this life more like an inferno to the rest of us who want to build a better and more peaceful world? We who seek a transformation from ASSad family jungle values, carry a heavy burden to reach and spread awareness for being better despite all this pain, to regain our humanity.

Today I was watching a movie that made me cry showing people helping each others. It reminded me of our forgotten humanity. The video captured the mercy and nobility of people. I thought: Only egocentric brutes incite people against each others and lead them to massacres for the tyrants’ own sick interests and desires, they want to devour more on the corpses of innocent humans. I also thought about those who support ASSad and cheer after every massacre his troops commit, calling him to purify Syria from those who does not worship their master, would they ever realize that they are just slaves and that ASSad does not worth crushing the souls of thousands of humans? He does not worth stepping the face of humanity with a boot forever?

I hereby testify that I am not neutral, I always take the side of the our forgotten humanity.

Why is he killing us? Just because HE CAN?

Ramifications of Syrian Conflict in the New Age

This commentary is written by Syrian analyst Ammar Abdulhamid:

Ethnic cleansing is not only about how many people are killed, it’s more often about how many people are displaced. With more than 6 million internally displaced persons, 2 million refugees, and hundreds of thousands of detainees and missing, the overwhelming majority of whom happen to be Sunni Arabs, and considering the fact that it has only taken 2 years to achieve this feat, the scale of the human tragedy in Syria assumes new proportions. Furthermore, the tragedy is playing out in the age of “never again” and R2P, reports of this genocide are being broadcast around the clock through social media so no one can feign ignorance, and all is being accomplished with minimal recourse to WMDs. Obama’s red line has been irrelevant since the beginning, and was nothing more than a meaningless bluff that was exposed as such when reports of its violation were casually dismissed by the man who drew the line, and when Israelis just showed the world how red lines are actually maintained. When world leaders fail to uphold their own rules and red lines, it is the global order that is undermined, and the implications of that will be felt in N. Korea, Burma, Congo, and a dozen other hotspots where red lines will soon be obliterated, and instead with one messy conflict, leaders of the free world will find themselves dealing simultaneously with many. This is for all those experts who think the conflict in Syria could be contained. They use smartphones and social media like robots, without understanding the real implications of this technology in the age of hyperconnectivity. There are no locally containable crises anymore. All conflicts are global. But some people can only get this the hard way. Syria seems so far away to most Americans, and so at one point did Chechnya, until she materialized in Boston. A few pro-Assad Syrians based in Dubai sent Wall Street reeling, if only for few minutes this time, with a hacked account and a fake tweet. Everybody’s vulnerable these days. A small set of few determined individuals with a local grievance can undermine everyone’s sense of security.

Stand in Solidarity with Syria

I, Icarus

500 people were shot, burnt, slaughtered, stabbed, mutilated, desecrated and humiliated in the massacre of Jadidat Artouz near Damascus. Children, men, women, physically challenged people, lovers, friends, families, foes, neighbors, all were slain on the altar of tyranny and bestiality. It is not the first, and it will not be the last. World’s eyes are gazing in dullness. One friend told me that after the massacre, she heard sounds of jubilations, and when she went out she saw the killers, holding whatever tools used put an end to many many lives, up to the air, to the sky, shouting like cavemen who got a kill, celebrating their ability to lessen the numbers of their future avengers. My friend told me that her heart was about to jump and keeps jumping violently till it shatters. I felt my mind will jump outside my head and keeps jumping violently till it shatters, for I can never fathom this bestiality in humans.

When massacres started in Syria, we used to cry our eyes dry through the long dark night, we scream, then we send our support and condolences to the survivors. Then we continue our fight. The sun used to melt our wings as we fly towards it, and every time those in the front fell, we used to land to lick our wounds and mend our wings that are made from wax, then we fly again toward the sun. But now, when those in the front fall, we don’t stop. We realize that they fall to make way for those flying behind them. The brave, they took the lead and sacrificed their wax wings, they were protecting those behind from being burned and melted by the sun beams before reaching and merging with it. So we don’t stop anymore, we don’t feel anymore. We just fly with silence. We, Icarus.

Thought of a Day

لاتعطي الناس مايتوقعونه منك، أعطهم انت. لاتحاول ان تبدو ظلا نمطيا، اعطهم شمسا تبلبل تصوراتهم المسبقة.
Do not give people what they expect from you, give them you. Do not try to be a shadow that resembles their stereotypical thoughts, but be a sun that disturbs their presumptions.