Syrian National Council Says Unearthed Hizbullah 'Mass Graves' in Syria
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The opposition Syrian National Council on Tuesday claimed that it has documented the presence of a number of mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of Hizbullah fighters who were killed in Syria.
“We have discovered a number of mass graves in which Hizbullah used to bury its members after every battle on Syrian territory, instead of repatriating the bodies to Lebanon,” SNC spokesman Mouayyed Ghizlan told CNN.
“For Hizbullah, these cemeteries have two objectives: the first is avoiding the traumatization of the dead's families and thus avoiding a strong outcry from the Lebanese public opinion, and the second is hiding the real number of casualties and preventing the Syrian fighters and rebels from knowing the real figures,” Ghizlan added.
Hizbullah has dispatched fighters to battle alongside the Syrian regime against rebels seeking the overthrow of President Bashar Assad.
The party had justified its intervention in Syria by saying it was backing popular committees defending Lebanese-inhabited border towns in Syria from attacks by rebels and extremists. It had also admitted that its fighters were guarding Shiite holy shrines in Damascus province.
But in a speech in May, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his party will stay involved in the Syrian conflict, after having helped government forces recapture the key town of Qusayr from rebels.
"Where we need to be, we will be ... To defeat this very, very dangerous conspiracy (against Syria) we will bear any sacrifices and all the consequences," said Nasrallah.
"The alternative (to the Assad regime) is chaos and the rule of these groups," he said, referring to extremist Islamist rebel groups he said were part of an "American-Israeli-takfiri plot."
The conflict, pitting a Sunni-dominated rebel movement against Assad, has raised sectarian tensions in Lebanon and Lebanese Sunni fighters have also been killed while fighting alongside Syrian rebels.
23 July 2013, 21:11
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I hope their parents see these pictures and wake up to recognize how HA treated their sons that fought for Nasrallah. All they got was a stick and a piece of cardboard with their name onit. Yalla keep chanting, br-roo7, bid-dam, nafdeek ya Nasrallah. Was it worth it? Did you give those young men a chance to decide their life and faith or just brain wash them since childhood so that they will serve their master when they are older?
24 July 2013, 11:21
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what parents? HA never hid its fighters and martyrs. the SNC are once more serving us lies, and soon they will once more proven to be full of it.
23 July 2013, 21:44
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Mon Dieu, des charniers! God bless thé FSA and help them face the human incarnation of Ibliss.
23 July 2013, 21:45
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anonymetexasusa, yes I feel the same way that something is not exactly right since the rebels did not retake territories occupied by the regime (At least not just yet)...
However, there are a lot of Shias from Iraq fighting a long side Hizbullah there... It could be from them...
23 July 2013, 21:45
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Yes, yesterday or today I read that the FSA took back some territories from the Syrian army. I can't remember if I read it here or on lorientlejour lejour.
24 July 2013, 02:26
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The territories they took back were around Allepo........... so not sure about the credibility of this article.
23 July 2013, 23:03
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inside_man, you can also add my name as well, because I also believe them. The only rats are the murderers Baatth party gangs. Soon they will hang Bashar upside-down and soon I will pop the champagne…
23 July 2013, 23:34
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Yes inside_man, you are right; we thought he will be gone much sooner... But trust me it is coming sooner or later and he will be hung... Man I have been so thursdy for those champagne...
24 July 2013, 01:21
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nusra cant win in syria, they got kicked by few kurds, let alone FSA...
24 July 2013, 18:35
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flame the word bani ma3roof represents my religion and you keep insulting us mate! I take it that you didn't know that. no need to bring religion into your arguments please.
24 July 2013, 05:58
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...see who DON'T... huh! Is carpal tunnel syndrome starting to get to you, gabbaguybo, or is it your lack of attendance to medical school that Dr. Arreet 7akeh never knew he was enrolled in until he graduated, virtually? Allouchti, where are you my compatriot? GabbyMarch14 needs your typing and linguistic skills, smalla. w Hezz ya nawa3em khasrak l 7ariri!
27 July 2013, 19:13
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I Dont think Lebanese needs to hide their men...because their families....many families in lebanon support hezbollah, and even if their son dies..they accept this, as a honor, which is. So hide a corp, is not the face of hezbollah, or lebanese families.
