Witnesses in the Syrian gas attack were false, faced with new threats at home

You can be forgiven that a war has occurred in the central Damascus.

The ancient old town of the Syrian capital, with street vendors, confectionery and jewelry pushes with each other with sweets and jewelry. Narrow passages of the territories such as Umayyad Mosque and the best, none of the country’s destructive 14-year civil war.

Another world is located in a kilometer distance. Jobar’s surroundings are completely dismantled around the old city along the highway. For many years, the main front line was struck by artillery and airstrikes in each building.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a pipeline of East Grouta, a pipeline, which is the main support for the main support for the renewal forces, which has a competition forces.

Among these beaten areas, one slum is over the rest: the city of Douma. One of the informal capitals of the Syrian Revolution, Doum, leaving the scars visible in every building in the city today, the regime was a goal to revenge.

One of these attacks was worse than the rest. April 7, 2018 the Syrian Army Helicopter He threw a barrel to one of the following buildings. Did not explode after the landing, but a large load was released: chlorine gas. Gas, barrel drowned with dozens of women and children who took refuge in the basement of the building in the third floor.

“It was full of all the stairs bodies,” said the local abddurahman Hejazi who witnessed the attack. “They foamed in the mouth and drowned in their lungs. Most of them did not survive.”

The attack caused not only mass losses. Soon, some of the survivors will never have to be forced to have a movement that has never happened and hated and hated his neighbors, and as a result, it will eventually lead them to lose almost everything.

‘How can we say the truth?’

The 2018 gas attack, which caused the death of at least 40 people and injured hundreds, came to the tip of the remaining seven-year siege and the rest of the East. Along with the Syrian regime, Russia and Iran allies, the rebels have finally won the capital and victory in the battle for Damascus.

Chemical strike effectively violated the rebellious resistance in the area and region Evacuation Agreement Seeing local rebel groups moved to the rebel in the north of Syria, and the Assad regime later controlled the supervision of the born several days.

Now the site is completely inaccurate, Derelict is another nondescript alley in a maze of streets. Four reservoirs killed in a single poster attack on the wall.

Hejazi and his friend Omar Diab caused a seven-year exam.

“We both approached the underground field hospital here to treat the victims of the gas attack,” Diab said in a direct furniture apartment near the holiday. “I just tried to wash the kids – to clean the gas from his eyes and face. There was a video we went to Viral. How did they find it.”

“They,” in this case, Russia and the Assad regime. After the attack, Moscow entered the management regime quickly for the ally.

17 Doma Plience – Hijazi and Diab diab – and brought them to The HagueThe Netherlands. There, they were “staged” in the organization for the ban on chemical weapons (OPCW), the rebel groups of gas attacks, and white helmet and the white helmet, the civilian rescue organization.

“They took us first in Moscow, to make sure that we understood us,” The 11-year-old son Hassan said.

Others confirmed that on the trip. Three Syrian vehicles from Douma AFP explained The Assad’s government has threatened their families directly to force them to deny the gas attack. Western countries have appeared in the conference with the representative of France’s OPCW descriptive Like the “obscene masquerade”.

“Our family members – survived – were still in Doua,” he said. “How can we tell the truth like a collateral?”

Although this experience is quite tough, it was worse.

Rumors, threats emerge

After returning to Diabazi Doum, not by Assad regime, not as a reward, and to ensure its loyalty to two men.

It says many residents in the city, Diab and Hejazi, said in exchange for special privileges in the death of their friends and neighbors. Rumors also spread that the men received special security permits that allow men to pass many military checkpoints in the city.

“We started to get a quick threat,” hejazi said. “Initially, they simply looks angry reviews and dirty, but soon it became clear that something more seriously can happen. I started to feel like the danger of my life.”

The situation was so strained that both men flee from the country in 2023 and flee from the country. Hejazi went to the border with Lebanon, a notorious smuggling center near Talkalak. While waiting to be opened, a Syrian army was discovered and arrested by patrol, and then severely beaten for more than 9 hours. He was brought back to Douma and never attempted to leave the city.

Diab rejected for a legal route with similar results. He went to update his passport, after which 17 days were shot by Syrian military intelligence. He would not run for him.

Both men admitted that the Assad regime had a hope when he is overthrown of December 8 last year. Soon proved fake.

“The regime fell three days, HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) warriors came to my house,” said Diab, Assad and the rebel group that ruled the new Syrian government.

“They threw me on the street and said it would never be back. I couldn’t take any of my item – now it’s my back clothes.” Now with their parents, he lives on the same street where the gas attack occurred.

Charges of taking bribes

The same thing happened with Hejazi. The house was seized by the local Sheikh, who moved to Saudi Arabia years ago, and since then the native Douman also had a great impression.

“I can’t go to the new authorities about this, because (Sheikh) has many local inhabitants who love him,” he said hejazi. “If I push the issue, I can be missed or even killed. Friends with the warriors of the north (Idlib, HTS) are friends and have all the power.”

Hejazi, the autumn of the regime and planned his wedding at the time of his expulsion. Now, without houses or items, postponed indefinitely.

A short tour around the neighborhood confirms that two men say about them.

“I know that some of those who go to the Hague are threatened by the regime,” he said. 47-year-old mechanic. “However, others definitely took a bribe. The regime gave them privileges in return.”

Some of the other witnesses brought to Russia’s OPCW conference are feeling this way. Tawfig Ali Diab, who lost his wife and three daughters in the attack, is not a intense dislike for Hejazi and Omar Diab.

Robertson, a centered journalist who met with men in December one’s own storyHe said, “Tawfiq), shouted on the avenue, because we did not want to talk to us because we talked to Abdurahman (Hejazi).”

“He said (Hijazi and Omar Diagnos) the regime took a bribe and lied to their profits,” Robertson said.

‘Why no one helps us?’

Hejazi and Omar Diab, taking any bribe, definitely deny.

“We had no choice,” he said. “The regime put us in these apartments and we could not do anything about it.”

Used by Assad regime and neighbors, he faced a contemptible situation by Hejazi and Diab. DoMo’da live safe but neither hopes to avoid or get back to the new government.

“Our only hope is an international community who speaks the media,” he said hejazi, dragged in a cigarette long and frustrating.

“Like France and Switzerland, which sent delegations here, these countries say human rights are important to them. Why doesn’t anyone help us?”