“They shot the patients in beds” – BBC hears claims to the massacre at Swayida Hospital

Syrian government forces were accused of massacre at the hospital during the sectarian skirmishes, which broke out a little over a week ago.

The BBC visited the Swida National Hospital, where staff claim that patients were killed in the wards.

Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence

The stench hit me in front of anything else.

In the parking lot of the main hospital in the city of Suwida, dozens of decomposing corpses lined up in white plastic bags for the body.

Some open to the elements, revealing the swelling and mutilated remains of those who were killed here.

Painted under my feet greasy and slippery with blood.

In the cunning sun, the smell is stunning.

“It was a massacre,” the D -Ri Visa Masud says.

“The soldiers came here, saying they wanted to bring peace, but they killed dozens of patients from the youngest to the oldest.”

Earlier this week, D -R Masud sent me a video that, he said, was in the direct direction of the government raid.

In it, the woman shows you the hospital. There are dozens of dead patients on the ground in the wards, who are still complete in their bloody sheets.

All here, doctors, nurses, volunteers say the same thing.

Last Wednesday night, Syrian government troops aimed at the rubble community came to the hospital and murdered.

Kins Abu Motab, a volunteer at the hospital, said about the victims: “What is their crime? Just because the minority is in a democratic country?”

“They are criminals. They are monsters. We don’t trust them at all,” the English teacher told me in the city.

“They shot dead an eight-year-old disabled boy,” he said.

“According to international law, hospitals must be protected. But they have attacked us even in hospitals.

“They entered the hospital. They started firing everyone. They shot patients in their beds when they slept.”

All parties in this conflict accuse each other of atrocity.

Both Bedouin and Druza fighters, as well as the Syrian army accused the murder of civilians and additional court murders.

There is no accurate picture of what happened at the hospital. Some here estimate the number of people who will be killed last Wednesday with more than 300, but this figure cannot be checked.

On Tuesday evening, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said the statement was known about reports of “shocking violations” by people who wear military fatigue in the predominantly Druze City Sweida.

Earlier this week, the Saleh, the Syrian Minister for Combating Natural Disariums and emergency response, told me that any charges committed by all parties will be fully investigated.

Access to the city of Sweaido was strongly limited, which means collecting evidence firsthand.

The city acts under siege with the Syrian government forces that restrict the one who is starting and out.

To enter, we had to go through numerous checkpoints.

When we entered the city, we passed shops and buildings, cars that were crushed by my tanks.

The city of Suwida clearly saw a serious battle between the fighters of rubble and Bedouins.

It was at this point that the Syrian government first intervened to try to cease the fire.

Despite the fact that many villages of Druza in the province of Suwida were restored by government forces, the city of Sweaido, where more than 70,000 people live, remains under complete control of rubble.

Before leaving the hospital, we found eight -year -old Khala Al Khatib, who was sitting on his aunt’s bench.

The chala face is bloody and tied up. She seems to have lost her eyes.

She tells us that the militants came and shot her in the head, she hid in her house.

She does not know it, but both parents of the chala died.