(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine years ago, the Syrian regime forces and allied militias slaughtered 107 civilians, including 49 children and 32 women in central Homs province.
After the Asr Prayer on Friday 25 May 2012, residents heard that the regime was going to storm the town of Taldou, but most of them had never expected that a massacre was about to be committed.
Abu Arslan, one of the massacre survivors, told Zaman al-Wasl, “my father asked me to go up to loft of the bathroom in our flat until the regime campaign was over based on the excuse that I am wanted for military service, and I did what my father asked me,” confirming that, “the first sentences that the regime thugs said when they entered our house (we will take revenge on them), and at that time I realized that all my family and relatives would be killed, and actually they gathered my family into a corner of one of the rooms of our house, and they killed them with bullets.”
Eye-witnesses indicated that the regime thugs killed 99% of those present at the time in the al-Sad neighborhood, and they did not stop until half an hour before sunset.
He added, “after that I came down from the loft, I found my mother and father and 3 siblings killed with bullets, some of them slaughtered with knives, so I went to the town and told them what happened, so they transported the victims to the mosque that lies in the north of the village, and to freezers in Kafrlaha, and Tell Thahab, and the next day a United Nations delegation came and they saw with their own eyes the victims of the massacre before they were buried in mass graves.”
Another witness from the city of Taldou called Abu al-Bara’a said to Zaman al-Wasl, that the regime forces’ intention on that terrible day was to kill the highest number of civilians added that his city Taldou was subjected on that day to 3 massacres and not one massacre. The first started during the exit of the congregation from Friday prayers as missiles and rockets started to fall from the water institution checkpoint, coming down on them like rain which pushed the rebels to attack the checkpoint at the military security distribution center at the entrance of Taldou.
The second massacre was in al-Sad neighborhood, which happened while the rebels were busy liberating the distribution center checkpoint, between the afternoon and sunset prayers. The third massacre happened around midnight after the migration of around 80% of the residents of Taldou to other al-Houla neighborhoods. A tank and pick-up truck moved from the water institution checkpoint, loaded with security personnel and regime thugs, towards the southern entrance of Taldou, they surrounded a small neighborhood where only two families of 15 members remained.
Syria's war has killed more than 400,000 people and displaced millions since starting in 2011 with the brutal suppression of anti-regime protests.
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