A picture of the Syrian Minister of Culture in the Interim Authority, Muhammad Yassin Al-Saleh, circulated alongside Qusay Al-Shammari, a member of the loyalist militias that participated alongside the forces of the Interim Government in the sectarian attacks in As-Suwayda Governorate in mid-July.
The photo was posted by al-Shammari on his Facebook account on the evening of Saturday, August 30, one day after he appeared on official media at the Damascus International Fair.
Al-Shammari had appeared in a video posted on his personal page during the kidnapping of a family consisting of two women and children from the northern countryside of As-Suwayda, last July. The family was released a week after the kidnapping as part of the “exchange” process, as I stated in a previous interview with As-Suwayda 24.
The crime took place in the village of Radima al-Lawa, north of As-Suwayda governorate, during the attack launched by militias loyal to the interim government under the name of “tribal panic”. Three members of the family, the head of the family, his son and his wife, survived the mother and daughter, and her young grandchildren.
The family had taken shelter on the roof of their house in the village, when they were attacked with machine guns and bombs by militants of the militia of which Al-Shammari was one of the leaders. A moving picture of a child looking at the bodies of her parents and walking on blood before being kidnapped with the surviving members of the family spread.
Qusay al-Shammari also appeared in other sections on the Damascus-Suwayda road announcing his participation in the siege of the governorate and preventing the entry of foodstuffs. Villages on the same road, from the big picture to Umm al-Zaytoun, were subjected to massacres of a genocidal nature, including killing and kidnapping of residents, looting and burning of houses, places of worship and churches.
It is not the first time that the Minister of Culture appears alongside war criminals. A previous picture of him has already spread in the diwan of one of the leaders of the Iranian-backed militias, Al-Marsoumi, who also had a share of participation in the attacks on As-Suwayda Governorate, along with the forces of the interim government.
Source: As-Suwayda 24
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