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3 documents reveal more sexual abuse for widows of Assad fighters


By George Hadad; Translation by Yusra Ahmed

(Zaman Al Wasl Leaks)- Violations committed by the National Defence forces Militias touched even people loyal to regime with no exception to families of their killed colleagues or members.

Zaman al-Wasl is carrying on publishing sexual harassments committed by responsible figures in the National Defence Forces (NDF) especially against wives of their “Martyrs”.

The newspaper obtained new documents containing information reported by victims and members of the NDF, witnesses from the inside, which gives the reports more credibility.

The first report goes back to September 2014, it talks about a woman, a wife of a member of the NDF who was killed by rebels, she claimed that rebels demanded 300 thousand Syrian pound to hand them his body. The woman rejected telling her name or even her husband’s.

Her friend reported the complaint to on behalf of her, and the investigator heard the story from the victim over the phone.

The woman said that she had to go to the Martyrs’ office in the National Defence Forces’ office in Salamiyah, to follow up the procedure for the salary for her killed husband. She was transferred to Anas Asaliyah, who promised her to do his best to get her paid the salary, in the same time he requested her phone number. After a while he started contacting her and requesting her to go to visit him in office in the evening when nobody in the office. In the end he told her that he managed to sort out her husband’s salary and wanted a treat for that, which he decided to be sexual treat. He forced her to make sex with him, normal and anal, for many times, without any consideration to her feelings or her agreement.

She said that she was ready to reveal her name and other women’s who were subject to similar blackmailing, on condition to protect her and her family and keep her case confidential.

The second report is from the National Defence forces’ office in Salamiyah, which report that information had reached to the office about many men wearing military clothes claiming to be from the NDF, accompanied sometimes with blindfolded women, regularly attended to a farm in Mezeriah village. The report mentioned that after raiding the farm, they found many bags for covering faces some of them were stained with blood, drugs, sex-enhancing pills like Viagra, a desktop computer, and many CDs, some of them contained videos of women in inappropriate sexual acts where they were filmed secretly besides many forged reports about some members of the NDF.

After questioning the farm’s owner, he confessed that he let the farm to people claimed to be from the NDF and show him ID cards from Salamiyah centre, and the person he dealt with was Mamoon Masarani, from Tartus countryside, lived in a flat in the city centre. The report mentioned that flat was empty when was raided, but CDs contained videos of women in sexually offensive acts were found and Mamoon was seen in many of them, where he filmed women secretly by a camera hidden in a tissue box.

The third report shows the initial questioning of Mamoon Masarani about the farm and the flat and the inappropriate and offensive videos, and the fake reports against many members of the NDF, he claimed that he worked to Malik Hasan, a Lieutenant colonel from Jablah, and witnesses on fake reports were forced to sign on their statements. Mamoon added that Malik Hasan convinced him that acts would benefit the country and they are top secret and threatened them to keep silent otherwise they would be hurt.

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