Khaberni - The Syrian security forces caught the criminal Amjad Youssef today, Friday, identified as one of the key suspects in executing the Douma massacre in the Syrian capital, Damascus, about 13 years ago.
The question about the identity, personality, and history of Amjad Youssef arises, and the following lines summarize his biography:
-First Assistant in Branch 227 (Regional Branch) of the Military Intelligence Division, and one of the direct executors of the Douma neighborhood massacre in Damascus on April 16, 2013, which claimed the lives of dozens of innocent civilians.
-The Ministry of Interior arrested him during a tight security operation executed in Sahl al-Ghab in the Hama countryside, following several days of surveillance and tracking.
-Last year, the internal security caught a number of those involved in the massacre, and they confessed to committing several massacres in the neighborhood, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 500 men and women, in addition to crimes of looting and plundering homes and properties.
-The Guardian was the first major international media outlet to publicly and officially disclose the identity of Amjad Youssef, as part of its investigation published in April 2022 about the Douma massacre.
-The investigation relied on leaked videos from April 16, 2013, showing Youssef and elements of the defunct regime in military attire, commanding blindfolded and handcuffed civilians to run before shooting them and dropping them into a pit filled with corpses.
-The video documented the execution of 41 men before the bodies were burned and served as evidence of the mass executions committed in the neighborhood.
-Youssef was responsible for the neighborhood and committed numerous violations and crimes against civilians there.
-Residents of the neighborhood documented the names of 288 martyrs in the massacre, which forms part of a series of massacres revealed by mass graves in Douma.
-The video and international investigation served as additional evidence of the crimes committed by the forces of the defunct regime against the Syrian people during the years of the uprising.
