Terrorists have beaten out local people’s confessions that they work for government forces.
Syrian military found a police station with cameras in the liberated village of Urem near Aleppo where terrorists were torturing detainees.
The village had been under the control of three different militant groups for several years, including Russia’s banned Jabhat al-Nusra, and each used the premises for one purpose, local residents said. The site was housed in a former veterinary clinic building.
According to Farmer Faisal Gharaf, in the walls of his police station, terrorists were beating confessions that he worked for government forces. Militants fed the detainees little more than torture and humiliation. The Syrian military found scattered documents, some of which the militants burned before retreating.
Terrorists severely destroyed the village, even the ruins of an ancient Christian temple of the Byzantine period, where tourists often came to see in pre-war times. Bandits dug huge pits in an attempt to find gold and jewels, allegedly buried in the foundation. Locals say the militants wanted to blow up the monument as they retreated, but failed to do so, as did their medical station.
Now refugees are returning to the village. “Before the war, it was peaceful and good here, everyone lived in peace and harmony, everything was cheap in the shops, there was work and it was possible to feed the family,” recalled Muhammad Barakad, who came to his home with his family eight years later. – When the militants came here, we left and are back now. But as long as there are few people here, the living conditions are still difficult.
His wife said the family was forced to go to Lebanon, and now, until a house in Urem was rebuilt, has temporarily stayed in Aleppo.
“We came to see what happened to our house. Well, at least the walls and the roof are left – no need to rebuild everything. Only new furniture to buy – and you can live. Until we finally decide to move, we wait for light and water to come in”, – Om Ali Barakad explained.
On Syria’s reconstruction.
According to information from the Russian Centre for Reconciliation and Control of Refugees’ Movement, hundreds of educational and medical institutions had recently been restored in Syria, more than 1,200 km of roads and 14,000 industrial enterprises had been repaired. Work is currently under way in 345 settlements to restore and repair 2,700 residential buildings, hundreds of schools, preschool and medical institutions and 90 religious buildings.