Posted on 12/10/2024 4:38:55 PM PST by Words Matter
He called himself Hitler and loved to put on ‘entertainments’. To amuse his dinner guests, he would force the prisoners in his charge to act as dogs, donkeys, cats or other animals.
Those who failed to play their part would be beaten. ‘The dog has to bark, the cat meow, the rooster crow,’ recalled a former inmate. ‘Hitler tries to tame them. When he pets one dog the other dog should act jealous.’ ‘Hitler’ was a guard at a prison at the Mezze Air Base in Damascus and his sadism was unyielding even by the standards of Assad’s Syria. At Mezze, guards would regularly hang prisoners from a fence naked and spray water on them during cold nights. The New York Times described how one prisoner there was crammed into a tyre and beaten. He said an officer once told him that a screaming woman also in the prison but out of sight was his mother. He counted 19 cellmates who died from disease, torture or neglect in a single month. Since Assad’s fall, my social media feeds have swelled with images of rebels storming prisons, of bewildered prisoners stumbling through opened doors, of crying women blinking in daylight, and a toddler wandering out of an open cell door. There are scenes of men drilling into steel plates to reveal layers of prisoners wedged into the earth in hidden underground cells.
In one video I cannot get out of my head, a male figure sits upright on a bed, one foot manacled to its end. So motionless is he that, after watching it over a dozen times, I still genuinely cannot tell if he is a human or a mannequin.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
No more booze. And now we can't go to the beach.
I understand what you’re saying but see how he used jihadists too:
“Before the civil war began, in 2011, a majority of Sednaya’s inmates were Islamists, who had been encouraged by the Syrian government to join an offshoot of Al Qaeda that was fighting the United States in Iraq. Once they returned home, Mr. al-Assad jailed them to prevent them from threatening his rule.
As antigovernment protests spread across Syria in early 2011, the government released many of those jihadists and began imprisoning thousands of protesters, activists, journalists, doctors, aid workers, students and other Syrians. Many were sent to Sednaya.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/world/middleeast/sednaya-prison-syria.html
I remember when Saddam was "worse than Hitler."
It became a joke, how Neocons were always seeking a new "Hitler of the Month" for their next color revolution.
He was a Baath monster, just like Saddam.
But we do not yet know who will rule Syria, or the various parts of it, and whether they’ll be better or worse.
For now I’ll settle for the neutering of Assad.
Gee, we’re just now hearing about this.
What a coinky dink.
The al Qaeda rebel info bureau and media in full operation.
He was a monster to monsters. Now the other monsters are gonna commit atrocities and the media will justify it because this POS was bad. Look for another 2 million jihadists to invade Europe. How many can Biden fly here in a month?
Yet Israel and democracy are the bad guys.
A big powerful government which has no respect for individual rights. You have no personal power — if you did what you wanted, you would probably screw it up. So the government will make all your decisions for you, and if you cause trouble, there will be ... consequences.
This is basically a form of what the Democrats voted for here in the US. But they lost. Instead, Donald Trump (”literally Hitler”) won and now individuals in the US are stuck being free and making their own decisions about how they want to live their lives.
“What happened inside Assad’s prisons where thousands suffered 72 types of torture and 157,000 people have vanished: As new horrors are revealed by the hour, Patrikarakos beholds atrocity on staggering scale.”
So 157,000 imprisoned terrorists are let loose and replaced by millions of CHRISTIANS who are now effectively imprisoned and face a worse fate.
Only Neocons and Zeepers could celebrate this ‘success’.
Hafez al Assad was a cruel sadist, as was his oldest son who died before asdumjng control, and some of his relatives placed in power.
But Bashar…color me skeptical he is a genocidal sadist.
Not a popular opinion, I know.
This is all evolving to make ISIS and al Qaeda look like their terror to come in wholesale cleansing will have been provoked or justified …and make it hard for Gabbard and Trump to deal honestly with Syria
Just wait until ISIL is in charge. Things are not good for Syrians even with the brutal Assad regime gone.
There is no way to know if any of these stories are true.
One evil actor has now been replace with one equally as bad. Kind of like Stalin replacing Hitler.
I’m sure it was pure hell.
But don’t trust the media.
Propaganda.
It's not often we get a despot with a great sense of humor.
I sure wish there was a Youtube video of these antics and hijinks!
Cock-a-doodle-doo.
“A big powerful government which has no respect for individual rights. You have no personal power — if you did what you wanted, you would probably screw it up. So the government will make all your decisions for you, and if you cause trouble, there will be ... consequences.
This is basically a form of what the Democrats voted for here in the US. But they lost. Instead, Donald Trump (”literally Hitler”) won and now individuals in the US are stuck being free and making their own decisions about how they want to live their lives.”
Great post.
“Yet Israel and democracy are the bad guys.”
Just ask “Nitzy”:
“Israel will just have to ... kill more Christians” - FR’s own “nitzy”
Ping
RE: “worse than Hitler.”
If Satan allowed it to him, think how much trade mark licensing royalties Hitler would be making from use of his name and likeness.
A lot of Kamala’s wasted campaign billions would have gone to him.
And MSNBC would be even more broke.
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