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President Assad has moved thousands of Syrian prisoners to key military targets to use as human shields against air strikes, opposition groups claimed last night.
Sources in the capital Damascus report inmates being led from their cells onto buses and being taken to sites the regime fears will be targeted by western forces.
As the international community continues to debate military intervention in the long-running civil war following the alleged use of chemical weapons, opposition groups opposed have accused the Assad regime of murdering and torturing political prisoners.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2406351/Assad-accused-moving-human-shields-key-military-targets-defence-Western-air-strikes.html?ito=feeds-videoxml
eissa
(4,238 posts)The list of similarities continues to grow.
blazeKing
(329 posts)Seriously, is he supposed to move all his weaponry to fight al Qaeda into the middle of the desert or something?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)The horrors!
The unsubstantiated horrors!
JustAnotherGen
(32,000 posts)There was another spin on this . . . and that it was the Syrian's themselves in a show of defiance and patriotism are forming human shields of their own accord.
Wouldn't be funny either way - if they had to stand there for like - forever . . . because we haven't done anything.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Yes, it would be funny if they had to stand there, forever.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Placing people in or around the military targets is the oldest trick in the book.
JustAnotherGen
(32,000 posts)ocpagu
(1,954 posts)... under their free will, giving interviews to RT, etc. There's a video in the thread below:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023596338
I think this rumor is just a dehumanization strategy against the Syrian people who are against the US bombing their country...