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Syria: Medicine as a Weapon of Persecution, Testimony No. 8

186 views · Published 8 February 2012 · 1:37 · Indexed 2 October 2026

Channel: Doctors Without Borders / MSF-USA · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Testimonies from injured people and doctors from across Syria were collected by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff between January 30 and February 6, 2012. MSF is not authorized to operate inside Syria at present and thus is unable to fully verify the information collected here. However, given the recurring nature, consistency, and severity of the acts described in these testimonies, MSF has decided to make them public. For security reasons, names and locations have been withheld. Read more - http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=5755&cat=press-release
TRANSCRIPT:
"I was injured during the demonstration.
I was on a motorcycle.I saw a man who was
dragging an injured person out of the crowd.
They stopped me and said, 'Take us with you!'
There were three of us on the motorcyle
with the injured person between us.
They shot at us. 
The other guy who wasn't injured was shot.
The man at the back fell off the motorcycle.
It was only me and the injured man left. We fled.
They kept shooting at us."
[Who was shooting?]
"The security forces!
I was pushed up against a security vehicle. 
We fell and they beat us up.
Everybody in the vehicle got out.
About fifty of them were hitting us 
with the butts of their guns.
They were beating us, beating us....
I had an injured leg and a bloodied face.
I lost consciousness.
The other guy with me,
after the beating, was almost dead.
He was still alive the last time I saw him.
As for me, the blood was flowing from my ears,
my nose, my mouth... they left me for dead.
Some people put me in a blanket and brought 
me to a makeshift hospital.
There, some women gave me first aid.
I don't know what aid exactly... I stayed 13 days 
and then I was able to leave."

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