ah, every year of the exports over $1000000.00 tons of plastic waste. is there another way? after all, the environment isn't to recyclable. make up your own mind. d. w. made for minds. oh, video recorded in damascus, syria, a uniformed man marches another man towards a pit that's extremely disturbing.

out of respect for the victims were only showing reworked versions of such scenes from the video. we can look the perpetrator directly in the face when he pulls the trigger without remorse. within 6 minutes and 43 seconds, 10 people are shot dead. the victims are marked by their killers. i give my regards to the perpetrator. do not want anybody to see this video, individuals who are also kept in top secrecy. this report reveals a previously unknown crime and syria. researchers have looked into the background and tracked down the perpetrators who themselves will give information about the massacres. they have committed their crimes have plunged this syrian family in germany into deep grief. they recognize

a loved one in the video that i mug shots 3 times. 3 shots, we are speechless. ah, me, amsterdam, the netherlands. who go is on his way to his office. in the center of the picturesque old town, the historian teaches the challenging subject of mass violence in the middle east and neon, the institute for war, holocaust and genocide studies. 3 years ago, a friend approached him at a conference in paris, telling him there was something he had to see. we sat down in the back of the cafe and then he opened his mobile phone and he showed me a video clip that me even after 20 years of genocide research found very shocking. this video is definitely a breakthrough for research on mass violence because of the,

the intimate situation of killing that we see. the video shows victims whose hands are bound with their eyes and ears taped up with strips of blasting. in this scene, a man had to jump into the pit and was shot while still in the air. for on gore, the video was the beginning of his arduous and unsettling research. he and the colleague ask, who are the perpetrators who are the victims cleanser wanted persons cleansed over the hero. we cannot reveal that so as he ologist identity with her family live in syria, it could be dangerous for her and for her relatives if any one recognizes her. so why take the risk? but as a serious and am i am serious, i belong to the society and i wanted to know why we could actually house such

a brutal person personnel like asians, or agencies and what they have done. so i wanted to question as an academic, as a human syria, in the spring of 2020, the socio ologist started her research on the time and place of the crime. did it take place in the rebel area or in the territory of the assad regime? in the video, liberation of yelder is written on the wall in arabic. yelder is a town south of damascus. we saw that i sent him it and i got 50 kind of or we thought it happened in the elder. but then when we asked locals and some of the n g o were working there focal point there and she was working there, they said it's not at 1st,

the search for the location was just a dead end. and the date, according to the file name, the video was made on april 16th, 2013 by the spring of 2013, the war had been raging and syria. for 2 years. young people's protests had developed into widespread demonstrations against the assad regime opposition ists were conquering more and more ground. their ruler, assad hit back ever harder. just a few months before the mass shooting from the video occurred, he spoke to his followers, describing any legitimate protest against his rule as an act of terrorism perpetrated from outside the country. but we will not stop until we have stopped

the last terrorist in theory. we will not stop what we have started in the door of sirian artist, running man to experience the iron will of the syrian president 1st hand. but now the artist lived in live search and can tell us about it. at the beginning of the revolution in her early twenties, she too demonstrated against the regime her father, a well known lawyer campaigned in syria for those persecuted by assad for many and the opposition. he was a trusted figure. national wage is on then, not just me, having lots of people feel safe when my father is around. but in october 2012, her father, highly moto, was arrested on his way to work. no trace of him has been found since to remember

him. ronnie, motto has painted this picture. running also fell into the regimes clutches. she was imprisoned for several months in an intelligence agency jail. the branch as she calls it, no reason was given. right at the beginning she experienced a brutal ritual. the so called welcoming party. as he had been mission to fasten, they tied me up and covered my eyes at 1st on all of us. then when we reached the branch, 1st of all, they just feed us as my guest loudon. it's called a welcoming party. and many syrians know about this welcoming party. loiter can, there are no question common party only countries flags. and after her release, she was able to flee to germany. unlike many other regime,

critics whose fate like her father's remains unknown. back to amsterdam. whoo! after 3 months the sociologist finds an important clue. the graffiti of a palm tree on the wall leads her to the name of the artist who made it. he tells her that the location is in the district of ta domlyn, south of damascus. there is a mosque and a wedding hall nearby. with the help of further experts, the sociologist is finally able to locate the place for the neon researchers. a clear lead emergency room. when he seemed to scoring oh no, never heard coarsely ah ah, they did. they blocked the buildings and, and after and to south in november of 2012, so that this was suitable to committed a crime because it was empty to so the 30. so what is remarkable is that the people

of that were executed, executed in a street in a, in an area that was almost always in the control of the asa regime who are on gore and his colleague wonder whether they can find out more about the suspected government forces, they decide to go one step further. they want to find out exactly who committed the deed the executioner can be seen very often in the video. who is he? a soldier, a police man, or from the intelligence agency? the sociologist researches which security forces were in the district of ta dammon and spring 2013 an arduous search. the syrian intelligence agency is everywhere. we figured out that its joint agencies and im

habitats or the intelligence the say, an intelligence into the just bashed $200.00 to $27.00 in syria. there are 4 intelligence agencies, the political secret service, the general secret service, the air for secret service and the military secret service. from here, neon researchers were able to reconstruct a direct chain of command to branch to 27 and to the commander in the district of ta dominant m, at the likeness sent on montana all the ent and berlin note i shall. lottie is researching the syrian secret services. she also analyzes the role of agents during the syrian revolution. prior to the revolution, the intelligence agencies had penetrated society with surveillance, intimidation, and even torture in prisons blue behind instantly. and what is the extent of the

protests and demonstrations in 2011 caught the syrian intelligence agencies pretty much unawares, and he couldn't eyes off. they reverted to their old tried and tested measures of repression and violence. it does dealership behind the scenes. the syrian intelligence agency is unbelievably brutal and inhuman from me here and see from the survivors of torture and fun. but flint, i believe it's utterly barbaric designed for casa, but who committed and filled this massacre? the sociologist and amsterdam searches for members of intelligence branch, $227.00 on social networks then she finds this facebook profile a man showing off with his motorbike, who likes body building. obviously, an avid assault supporter. could this be the mass murderer? my initial feeling was that i thought it was unbelievable. how is it possible

that a killer who has committed such a horrific massacre as a facebook profile? that's my was my 1st thoughts, then i was a bit incredulous because i wanted to be absolutely sure that this was in the individual that we were looking for. the researchers check personal details and compare facial features and are sure this is the man and the video. we deliberately mask his identity. although the perpetrator works for the intelligence agency, he himself could attract the attention of the san regime. this was a momentous milestone for the researcher. i have many conflicting feeling. i was happy. at the same time, i was nervous. who is he? how can i ever watch him? how should i approach such a killer with a fake identity?

she contacts the man on facebook, will he reply? ah, and been a fed psychologist, funk 9, a researches the consequences of war and torture for victims. but also for those who commit crimes such as child soldiers in africa. even for him, the video from damascus is very hard to watch. did 2 gun kind moment. they don't hesitate for one moment as they do it on shawn's hook, there isn't a trace of shame or guilt, no trace of hesitation. who then sir, can we see there is a lot of routine in what they do the tool as it creates the impression that it's not the 1st time they are doing. this was a good one. hide. they are used to what is happening here because he had but how

can someone kill like this in cold blood lighter? this is catherine, he thought, sadly, it's really the case that there's no governing human biological inhibitions when it comes to torturing or killing others to think on technicians that were in certain situations. the people are able to do it. and they're able to completely shut down their compassion for others and the regime in the military. and these kinds of units. it, us all systematically break down this inhibition. dunces tomatoes. in march 2021. the perpetrator gets in touch directly from syria. here is a clip from the video chat. tell you. hi, how are you? this is he wasn't when are you coming to syria?

you asked for his gambling. he was a curious ah, but he was suspicious as well. he wasn't ready. he had questions on the as any other agents and television and intelligence agents and syria. why did you approach me? why do i'd and did you quote me now? why you're guiding to me? who are you? ah, you say? i said, i am actually aga search. i am a student who wants to to know about your experience at the war. i thought for 7 or 8 years, when i was on the front of your player, i was in charge of one front of you. he doesn't say anything more specific. then he disappears. in the summer, he calls back and says more. i killed a lot of people. i don't know how many on the killers facebook page,

the sociologist also find his superior, presumably a colonel of intelligence branch, 227. in the autumn of 2013, this man leads a cnn reporter to areas of south damascus, which were previously in rebel hands. a man the sod regime obviously trusts the sociologist manages to get him talking to he praises his subordinate. in the video, the hero among heroes, we have the right to kill people who attack and destroy our country. why bring them to me in jail just to kill them? and might as well do it on the street. in prison, i have to give them a number, feed them, they are a burden on the state. i know it was seen the video how easy it is for the main shooter to execute dozens of people. and it is particularly this type of cold blooded menace that is necessary for the military intelligence to do to commit

their tasks from their own perspective. it is logical that the boss called the main shooter hero ronnie, mom took from leipzig, does not know the shooter in the video, but she knows branch $227.00 of the syrian military intelligence service. it's where she was imprisoned for several weeks, crammed into a tiny space with other women. she was interrogated and beaten again and again. and she heard what happened to other prisoners mulberry for be here 2 months and i discovered that people could make sounds. i had never heard before, and so i'm be fighting for their lives. i'm used to nuclear. when someone was been suffocated by a plastic bag, you could roll or slowly dying by electric shock. horrible some sounds are still in my head. mccarthy. according to the organisation syrian

network for human rights and over 200000 civilians have been killed by the syrian regime and air raids, but also in murderers by the intelligence agency since 2011. during the damo massacre and april 2013, the bodies of over 40 people were thrown in the dugout. pet ah, in one further video showed how the corpses were later burn with some tires. the researchers and amsterdam managed to identify several victims with the help of a list of missing persons and conversations with relatives in syria. the victims are aged between 20 and 55 women and men. ready ready me

in the us they're most likely taken from their houses. what we know from 2013 is that there were so many checkpoints around syria of the intelligence where they would pick people out that were suspicious or that were considered to be suspicious, or that were in any other way seen as a potential threats. never a real threat, but a potential threats to the regime. at the end of november, the sociologist in amsterdam contacts the damascus perpetrators again. ringback they exchange text messages. the man is extremely wary, which is why she had hesitated to confront him directly with the video. now, she takes the plunge. when i showed the video at the beginning he said, is it me? was it me? then he repeated. i said, yes, it's you. and he said, i'm

a soldier. i. i owe me all of us at smoking. he plays down his crimes saying they were orders from the top. how far at the top? the researchers from the ne odd institute have analyzed the connections within the power apparatus and detail. they see the ruler assad as being directly responsible . he appoints the heads of the intelligence agency. there are a number of chains between the actual shooter and president, assert himself. and it's not that many of them, there is no doubt that these perpetrators have not only a link to the regime, but they are the regime in england in the intelligence agency. not much happens without the president knowledge that don't live reporting goes to the top of the hierarchy. they report to the president and within the secret services, there is a very strict hierarchy. so it's really a top down government which means that the assad regime is directly responsible for

the mass shooting and april 2013 we confronted the syrian embassy and berlin with an extensive list of questions. what do they know about the mass shooting of innocent civilians and 2013 in southern damascus, where the perpetrator is punished. but we received no answer. ah, and syria, the assad regime allows crime such as those seen in the video to go unpunished. a law decrees wide ranging immunity for intelligence staff. assad does not recognize institutions such as the international criminal court in the hague, therefore, evading possible criminal proceedings. their carla bon day is a former chief prosecutor of the icpc and was later a member of a un investigative committee on crimes in syria. before she resigned, frustrated,

the swiss lawyer says that there was never a lack of evidence, but there was a lack of political will to bring the sombre machine before the court. the video of the dom and massacre is no surprise to her. she has seen similar films from other wars, often recorded by the perpetrators themselves. he's in dallas. noth, nothing. they are all proud of what they've done. that's why they film it. now does he stand? this is every day life in the war in syria to see style. it's unbelievable glory. legally speaking, the video and the crimes at documents is an invaluable piece of evidence. right, so i believe is said that it sounds cynical, but evidence like this is brilliant. these are belies this, this piece of evidence would certainly be a good basis for a solid investigation. he and a at meet long or one could prepare an indictment and go to court with us from

getting it came to seed in. of course, it would be good for syria if germany opened preliminary proceedings, affinity hit germany did in fact hold a trial of global note recently and cobblins to syrian intelligence agents were sentenced to long prison sentences for torture and murder. the principle of universal jurisdiction makes this possible. germany is one of the few countries to widely exercise this principle and can proceed against crimes committed on another states territory if the perpetrators are in germany. for the commissioners of the ta, domlyn massacre and international arrest warrant would be conceivable. we ask the investigators responsible at the office of the federal public prosecutor in cause hula. we discovered that they already know about the video, but the authority is keeping a low profile in public. they only make statements pertaining to arrests or

indictments. meanwhile, in amsterdam, the sociologist an own guar, assume that there are more videos like this. who she feels they suspect that they were filmed by the perpetrators themselves because the regime, systematically documents such crimes. until recently the sociologist was in contact with the dom one killer. she tells us about a clear message that he gave her so he's forgotten me. can you tell your father you will be there to get that you talk to me threats which do not intimidate her when the researcher is finally published to their work that her dom on crimes are reported on throughout the arab world. the original video where several of the victims can be recognised, turns up on social media. for some of the families, this brings a shocking certainty,

all even several 1000 kilometers away in germany, in the rhine mine region i . c home and omar fled from syria. now the war and their homeland has caught up with them. a friend has sent them the video. in the video, the parents and 2 daughters recognize a man, they have sorely missed for a long time. their son and brother wa seem 34 years old at the time. low in the video, he's wearing a white t shirt and blue trouser a hurdle bump alone these trousers he's wearing. i gave them to him and i recognized his face. and bob, i'm a mother and i know my son, that is my son. and all that was seen at his wedding in 2005,

a cheerful, happy man. the family tell us that their son himself a father of 2 daughters, worked in a cement factory and in the family bakeries on april 14th 2013, 2 days before the todd dom on massacre wa, seemed suddenly disappeared. they still don't know why was he was never politically active on business. his father tries to reconstruct the day of his son's disappearance will be wa, seems set off in the early morning from their house in yarmouth, the palestinian quarter as a government contractor. he was transporting flour to a state run bakery in the neighboring district of ta dom, one. there are several checkpoints along the way. oh, here is the intelligence checkpoint about us. and here's the bakery.

he unloaded the flower and suddenly it was no longer possible to reach was e mm. they asked about him everywhere. the militia, the intelligence agency, but with no success. the family thought that was seam, had ended up in prison. 9 and seen, but my brother was seen means a lot to me. it is my of the i always hope that he would get out this even if he wasn't in the best of health anymore. i miss the good, but we never gave a poem and he had not for 10 years, you know, go ahead yet their son and brother was probably one of many arbitrary victims of the sod regime. now the c arms are demanding accountability and justice as are these syrians in berlin, shortly after the dom and massacre became well known, they put up these photos of their disappeared. they represent the many thousands of

deaths for which the regime is responsible. and president assad. after the publication of the video, he decreed on unusual general amnesty prisoners incarcerated. due to a legend, terrorism should be released as long as they have not killed anyone. but there was no word regarding the possible punishment of the diamond perpetrators. i find it very important that european countries where there are so many syrians that afflict to it, take seriously the violence of the asset regime. and what is the value of the word never again. if we allow a killer like this and his entire institution plus his bosses to continue to commit this type of violence. oh,

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