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(Activist): In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Today is April 7, 2012.
With us is a man who's been trapped for the last five days in the area of Deir Ba'albeh, Al-Kasarah.
He's going to tell us what happened to him in his village. From the time when the army and the Shabbiha first entered and [began] shelling till when he managed to escape.
Thank God you're safe. (Survivor): God bless you.
(Activist): Can you tell us what happened the Army and the Shabbiha first entered? What kind of shelling were you under, before you escaped?
(Survivor): The army came in, they started shelling us with rockets. Behind them were the Shabbiha and the regime's supporters.
They started rounding up the women. They *** them and slaughtered the children. They slaughtered the kids right in front of us, and started raping the women.
They lined everybody up into three rows. About 60 people in each row.
I was in the middle. They sprayed us with bullets, and we collapsed on top of each other.
They shot me. Here in my eye and here in my hand.
I waited until nightfall, then escaped. I got on a rooftop and hid there.
They came early, took all the bodies and burned them.
(Activist): What did they do with the children in the village.
(Survivor): They slaughtered all of them. They *** the women, then slaughtered them with knives.
(Activist): You saw this with your own eyes? (Survivor): With my own eyes.
They *** the women in front of us. They *** [our] neighbors. They left no one behind.
The young, the old, everyone. They lined them up and shot them.
(Activist): So there was a massacre in the neighborhood? (Survivor): A massacre, a massacre. Something beyond description.
(Activist): Was anyone else able to escape?
(Survivor): No one. Five days we stayed there, hiding on the rooftop.
(Activist): How did you escape? (Survivor): I waited for pitch darkness.
Then I crawled. I crawled and crawled until I came across the men who took me for emergency care. God bless him.
(Activist): Do you know what happened to your family?
(Survivor): They slaughtered my kids in front of me. My wife ... I don't know where she is.
(Activist): You don't know where your family is? (Survivor): I have no idea. They slaughtered everyone.
(Activist): Can you tell us...?
(Survivor): ... and after they killed everyone, they started looting our homes.
(Activist): Could you give us the names of some of the families in the village?
(Survivor): There's the Al-Di'yyah family, the Ghaliouns, the Manbarids ... they slaughtered all of them.
There were many, many families in the village.
(Activist): What's happened in the village?
(Survivor): Destruction, rockets. They've left nothing but rockets, rockets ... they destroyed the village.
They were all Iranians and allies of the regime. They wore yellow ribbons.
And they had beards down to here.
(Activist): What do you have to say to the Arabs and to the outside world? What would you ask of them?
(Survivor): I ask them to help us. I ask for ... [weeping]
My wife and my kids! I don't know where they are! I don't know where my wife and kids are!
[Inaudble weeping] ... God damn them!
(Activist): What do you have to say to the Muslim religious scholars?
(Survivor): Where is the Muslim world? By God, they don't care about us.
(Activist): Can you see out of your eye anymore?
Nothing left. It's been shut like this for five days.
I took a hit here. Can't see a damn thing.
Five days without food, water, anything. Just hiding on the roof of some storehouse.