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Syria says it arrested ex-intel officer filmed taking part in 2013 Damascus massacre

www.timesofisrael.com·GHAITH ALSAYED·about 1 month ago
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Syria says Amjad Yousef was one of several officers caught on leaked video shooting dozens of prisoners into trench in Damascus suburb near Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian authorities said Friday they have arrested a former intelligence officer who appeared in a video leaked four years ago that purportedly showed him and his comrades fatally shooting dozens of people during the country’s civil war. Amjad Yousef was arrested in the central province of Hama, where he had been hiding, the Syrian Interior Ministry said, and posted a photo of him in a striped prison uniform. Since insurgents ousted former president Bashar Assad in December 2024, dozens of members of his security agencies that were blamed for atrocities during the conflict have been arrested. Assad fled to Russia. The conflict, which began with anti-government protests in March 2011 before turning into a civil war, left half a million people dead and over 1 million wounded.…

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