Massacre in al-Hasaweya near Homs killing 20

 20 people were killed, 4 brothers with their children and wives, according to activists, Massacre was committed in “al-Hasaweya” near Homs.

  Two days ago, Shabiha, Pro-Assad's Militia, attacked small village in the countryside of Homs and killed 20 people, among them 9 children and 3 ladies. 4 of them were from the same family. After that they burn their homes and stole their cars.

 An activist in “al-Hasaweya” village told Zaman Alwasl   that the massacre happened last Sunday after the midnight, some of the Shabiha, who believed to have come from the neighboring area called “Aldoueir”, attacked the village and gathered people in one house, and killed them, 4 of the victims were brothers from the one family with their 8 children and three women but no information available about their names as they were displaced from Homs to the area sometimes ago.

 About the method of killing, the activist said: “some of the victims are believed to  had been slaughtered with knives, as few gunshot sounds were heard and it took place in the end”

 According to the victims’ relative, the killers are believed to be Shiites from  neighboring villages, but no one was able to recognize,  film or picture them.

 The Syrian revolution started more than 28 months ago in March 2011, it started peacefully in a form of gathering and protests, but with the violent reaction of the regime, the armed conflict took place.

 Many massacres were committed, many of them  in Homs, that is called “the Capital of  Syrian revolution”  , which lies at a strategic crossing linking Damascus with army bases in coastal regions controlled by Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated majority Sunni Syria since the 1970s.

  The United Nations says as many as 100,000 people have been killed in Syria and four million have been internally displaced, while nearly two million have fled to neighboring countries.

Reporting by Faris al-Refaei Editing by Yusra Ahmed