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12th May 2008
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I’ve been trying to sum up the word to write this post for over an hour now, and honestly…no words can sum up what happened yesterday and all the events that followed in Halba, Akkar.
On friday night, mosques across Akkar, called for demonstrations in Halba. At the time, i was with a bunch of friends from different political parties(pro-government and opposition). Everybody present knew what was going to happen at that demonstration. They all knew because it had happened before. Almost a year ago, Future movement called for a demonstration that soon turned into an attack on the SSNP headquarters in Halba, the result was 5 FMers injured and the attack was repelled.
( Huh, on that day, i was arrested for several hours on suspicion that i was between the SSNPers that fired machine guns, even though i wasnt even in the same area at the time of the clash, a fact that the police knew, since I WAS THEM all day long taking pictures of the demonstrations and i even arrived with them to the scene)
Well, what everybody speculated happened. The demonstration was suppose to take place at 10 AM, people from my area told me that they were going to torch down the HQ. Soon, news arrived that the demonstration was postponed till 11, and at around 10:30, clashes began.
To put things into perspective, i’m pro-opposition in the middle of a pro-government area. Even though most of them are friends and family, paranoia hit me when i learned that people very close to me where taking part in the clashes and even leading the attack. That meant one thing, we were next. Automatically that SSNP HQ, became our last line of defense. I know this might seem strange, but that’s exactly how we felt. All roads coming from the south(Tripolis) was cut by the army and pro-SSNP members sat-up a blockade and captured over 50 fully armed FMrs , coming from Brkayel and Bibnin, sent by none-other then the Mufty(highest Muslim cleric in akkar) himself. The FMers were stripped from their guns and sent back. Somebody told us that reinforcement were coming from koura(SSNP stronghold), but it was stopped by the army.
Negotiations began to put an end to the fighting, and the attackers demanded that the SSNP evacuates the HQ and hands it over to them. SSNP fighters rejected the offer, and the fighting continued as both sides used machine guns, B-7s, stingers(WHERE THE **** DID THEY GET THAT????) and mortars (the home of a journalist i knew was hit with two successive mortar shells with his kids inside the house, we caught with him later). At 4:30 PM, SSNP fighters ran out of ammo as FMers moved in and threw a burning Truck tire into the HQ. At this point, a shaikh intervened and asked the SSNP fighter to hand over the office to the army, the fighters agreed after the shaikh guaranteed their security. Army soldiers took over the office and we all thought that this was it. It wasn’t. FMers stormed the office and as the army watched, lined up the SSNP fighters on a wall and executed them at point blank range. They executed the fighters after they surrendered. That wasn’t all, FMrs brought axes and started hammering down at bodies, cutting every limb. All of this happened while the army was watching.
At around 5:00 PM, the door bell rings. Its a distant relative of mine(who’s an FMer btw), he came to tell us that he was just in halba and witnessed the atrocities that was being committed. He came to urge us to leave the country immediately because they were coming to us next. We stayed a while trying to figure out, witch road to take, as news came that FMers are setting checkpoints everywhere, asking for IDs and checking the trunks. We decided on a road and quickly headed towards the borders. I’m writing this now, from a net cafe in Syria.
The massacre did not end at the SSNP HQ, FMers are attacking the houses of all the known pro-opposition people in Akkar, 2 people died in Tikrit yesterday and they also killed three injured fighters(from the HQ clash) inside hospitals, one of them was taken from the hospital, locked inside a car and the car was torched down with him burning inside.
I have a list of all the dead and injured that i will post later on. Mistakes were made from both sides, but nothing at all justifies any of this.
Thanks for all the people that emailed me. I’m safe for now, and can’t wait for this ******** to end. I can’t stand the limitation on Internet activities here in Syria, no facebook and no MFL, no Tantalus nor any blogspot blog for that matter.
Regards
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Quote: | Is it Lebanon or Rwanda?!! (Details of the Halba Massacre - the Names)
Here’s a list of all the people that were executed and killed inside the SSNP HQ in Halba:
Fadi Al-Sheikh - executed
Ahmad Naaous - died in the clash
Zafer Hmouda - executed
Mikhayel Slayman - Injured in the clash, executed on site by smashing a rock on his head
Ahmad Khaled - executed
Mahmoud Darwish - executed
Sakir Diab - executed
Mohamad Ghanem - executed
Nasser Hmouda - Injured in the clash, executed by locking him in a car and buring it
Mohamad Al Sheish - executed
Sakir Dieb - executed
Mahmoud Al Turk - executed
Zafer Abu Jeij - executed
List of the Injured:
Adnan Hmouda
Haissam Hmouda
Imad Shidrawi
Tawfik Fiad
Imad Moussa
Eiied Wrak
Walid Batikh
Names of the attackers from Halba (not complete, there’s also people from Inbar, Mishmish and other areas):
لائحة اسماء مهاجمي منفذية الحزب السوري القومي الاجتماعي في عكار:
List removed for security reasons
M.Z was the main leader on the ground, he moved the weapons two days before the attack in a blue Volkswagen and a Honda Accord.
The army moved the remains to the governmental hospital in Tripolis, and is refusing to hand it over to the parents.
FMers are holding two SSNP members hostages in Rahal hospital and is refusing to let them go.
The father of Mikhayel Slayman, Mr. Habib Slayman a +70 old teacher was taking hostage yesterday before the attack by people wearing uniforms, people who saw him cuffed and blindfolded thought that he was taking by army intelligence, but it turned out to be a gang of FMers, he was later released after the clashes to find out that his son was executed.
Khaled Khlayel, brother of Mahdi Khlayel a cadre of the Lebanese Communist party was attacked by the Future Movements beaten with his wife and had his house sacked and looted before it was burned down.
A gas station next to the SSNP HQ was also attacked, looted and torched, the gaz silos exploded later on. A witness told me that the FM fighters sent a little kid inside the station with bag. He came back with the bag filled on his back as the fighters secured his passage to a pick-up truck that quickly fled the scene right before attacking the station.
The rest of my family arrived a couple hours ago and everybody is safe, FMers sat-up a blockade in front of my uncles house and pointed their weapons to the balconies.
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