More stories to tell about Shabiha gangs

Translation by Yusra Ahmed 

In previous report,  shocking crimes of Shabiha were revealed, via reports they wrote against each other, which gave significant credibility to the mentioned stories and crimes.

Khnaifis, a small town nearby Salamiyah, Mosib Salamah’s shabiha took as a centre for them, they ruled it in their way. It has a prison to keep the abducted people, where they severely torture, no matter if they were pro- or anti- Syrian regime. Most often they killed after receiving the ransoms.

A report wrote by one of the shabiha, told the story of abduction 5 workers from Idlib at Khnaifis crossing, where they were threaten with arms, then taken to the prison in the town, the report mentioned that a name of “Mohmood Afifa” kept mentioned during the time the hostages spent in prison.

There were other 3 hostages in the prison, two of them from Deir Ezzor, and the third was a teacher from Tal Omari village, surprisingly he was a member in the national reconciliation committee. Afifa demanded a ransom of S.P4 million to release the teacher, S.P1.7 million were paid and the rest was negotiated about, before the hostages managed to escape from prison to shelter in nearby village.

When Mosib knew about the hostages’ escape, he claimed that armed groups were hiding around Khnaifis, and requested to use the canon to bomb the area, aiming to kill the hostages, and the bombing took place without questioning.

Another crime, Ali Hamdan and Mosib, committed, when they killed two hostages who were arrested when their BMW car stopped by Ali Hamdan men, to discovered that two men were carrying big amount of money and US dollar notes. Ali Hamdan sent the two men to Mosib, and started using their car claiming that Mosib bought it. However, Mosib demanded the car to be brought to him, to sell later in Lattakia, then he got rid of its owners.

Other crimes reported against Ali Hamdan were that he stole money from shoes seller, then killed them and burned their bodies.

Dozens of people, men and women were abducted, kept in prisons, tortured and killed. Many times the killing took place even after receiving the ransom.