Syria’s uprising started in March 2011 with peaceful protests calling for political reforms that were met with a fierce regime crackdown
(AP) ANADAN, Syria The guards pulled him from his cell before dawn on Monday, bound his hands, blindfolded him and drove him to an empty lot in the Syrian city of Aleppo. They sat him in a row with 10 other captives, he said, then cocked their guns and opened fire. “They sprayed us,” recalled 21-year-old Mahmoud, the lone survivor of the latest mass killing of Syria’s civil war. “The first bullet hit my chest, then one hit my foot, then my head. As soon as my head got hit, I thought, `I’m dead.”‘ Reports of such killings have surfaced frequently during the 17 months of deadly violence that activists seeking to topple President Bashar Assad say has killed more than 19,000 people. But details are usually scarce no more than activist reports or amateur videos of bloodied bodies or mass graves posted on YouTube. Aide: Ex Syria PM planned defection for monthsVideo: Syrian rebels anticipate large-scale assault on AleppoVideo: 먹튀 없는 놀이터 Extremists hijacking Syrian revolution? More in After the Arab Spring Mahmoud related his grisly ordeal to The Associated Press hours after it happened. Struggling to speak, he lay in a bed in a makeshift rebel-run field hospital set up in a wedding hall in this town 13 miles north of Aleppo. Bandages covered his foot, head and chest. Plastic vines and colored lights adorned...
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