Assad's snipers shooting unborn babies for a game
Published: 2013 October 19 08:12:45 (4538 Views)
Snipers belonging to the Assad regime in Syria are shooting pregnant women and their unborn babies in a disturbing "game" of target practice, a British surgeon has claimed.
David Nott, who has spent weeks volunteering in a Syrian hospital whose location cannot be disclosed, said each day snipers would chose to aim at different body parts of the civilians who ran from one part of the city to another to buy food and supplies.
One day it would be the groin, one day it would be the neck, the next it would be the chest, he told the Times.
"From the first patients that came in in the morning, you could almost tell what you would see for the rest of the day. It was a game. We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets."
On one day more than six pregnant women were caught by sniper fire and on another day two heavily pregnant women were targeted. They survived but their unborn babies died, one suffering a bullet to the brain.
"The women were all shot through the uterus, so that must have been where they were aiming for... This was deliberate. It was hell beyond hell," he told the paper.
Mr Nott, who has also volunteered as an emergency surgeon in Bosnia, Libya, Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, has recently returned from Syria.
He has described Syria as the most desperate of all war zones and the first place he had seen civilians, and especially pregnant women, being targeted.
Mr Nott estimated that 90 per cent of the people he treated were civilians.
He also described terrible conditions in Syrian hospitals that lacked even basic supplies and hygiene equipment.
He said local doctors worked under the threat of violence and some suffered from depression but were not willing to abandon their patients.
A vascular surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital who had volunteered in Syria before, Mr Nott said he saw little to no evidence of foreign aid reaching the places that badly needed it.
- Telegraph
David Nott, who has spent weeks volunteering in a Syrian hospital whose location cannot be disclosed, said each day snipers would chose to aim at different body parts of the civilians who ran from one part of the city to another to buy food and supplies.
One day it would be the groin, one day it would be the neck, the next it would be the chest, he told the Times.
"From the first patients that came in in the morning, you could almost tell what you would see for the rest of the day. It was a game. We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets."
On one day more than six pregnant women were caught by sniper fire and on another day two heavily pregnant women were targeted. They survived but their unborn babies died, one suffering a bullet to the brain.
"The women were all shot through the uterus, so that must have been where they were aiming for... This was deliberate. It was hell beyond hell," he told the paper.
Mr Nott, who has also volunteered as an emergency surgeon in Bosnia, Libya, Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, has recently returned from Syria.
He has described Syria as the most desperate of all war zones and the first place he had seen civilians, and especially pregnant women, being targeted.
Mr Nott estimated that 90 per cent of the people he treated were civilians.
He also described terrible conditions in Syrian hospitals that lacked even basic supplies and hygiene equipment.
He said local doctors worked under the threat of violence and some suffered from depression but were not willing to abandon their patients.
A vascular surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital who had volunteered in Syria before, Mr Nott said he saw little to no evidence of foreign aid reaching the places that badly needed it.
- Telegraph
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