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Syria's Gulag

(FrontPageMagazine.com) Farid N. Ghadry and Nir T. Boms - We received this email Thursday from a 14-year-old Kurd in Syria: I saw with my own eyes what I used to see in horror and scary movies and I heard with my own ears what I used to hear in stories told to me about the various savaged ways of torture. Yes, here in my own nation Syria. They forced me into a basement, then into a dark room full of people with a stench smell. I stretched my leg to enter the dark room but instead I hit a body lying on the floor. He emitted a crying sound, so I tried to step away from the body and then I hit another one who sounded even worse than the first and then I froze. I felt like I was in hell. Only later I realized that the room had 30 to 40 people in it. The majority were young, like me. I even recognized two who lived in our quarter. They covered my eyes with a black cloth and continued the beating. I remember screaming and crying for help. "Give us names," they asked. "Why were you marching?" I told them that I was not marching. They took me to another room, naked, blindfolded and shivering. I felt them attaching something to my toes, then to my fingers. Then, without any warning, I felt being electrocuted. I cried like a baby. I felt these were not humans, these people were not from our planet. What I saw from these killers, I will never forget all my life; and I will never, ever, forgive them.
2004-04-09 00:00:00
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