Today Marks the 34th Anniversary of Tadmur Prison Massacre

Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Tadmur Prison Massacre, in which hundreds of political prisoners from the Muslim Brotherhood were executed by the Assad regime on this day in 1980. Two battalions of the Defense Brigades – headed by Rifaat al-Assad- stormed Tadmur prison and cold-bloodedly executed the detainees in their cells. The victims were buried in mass graves in the Eweda Valley twelve kilometers north-east of Tadmur. The names of the victims and the details of the massacre were concealed, and the families of the victims still do not know the fate of their loved ones. The massacre was a prelude to many of the massacres committed by the Assad regime and that claimed the lives of thousands, which have been met with dubious silence by the international community. The Syrian Coalition warned of the consequences of the continuous inaction towards the massacres committed by the Assad regime and its mercenaries against the Syrian people, stressing that this silence is a direct license awarded by the international community to Assad, whose forces have been carrying out an unprecedented genocide against civilians using of primitive methods in killing and a brutal indiscriminate firepower against the unarmed civilians. (Source: Syrian Coalition)