-
A major 2013 massacre in Damascus by the Assad regime was recorded by its perpetrators, leaked and researched by academics, and revealed to the press. The Tadamon massacre puts a spotlight on Assad's atrocities and, some are arguing, the invisibility of Palestinian refugees. @ugur_umit_ungor/1519365182895632384
-
The researchers published their account in New Lines: newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-a-massacre-of-nearly-300-in-syria-was-revealed/ The Guardian tells the story of the story, including tracking down the commander: theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/massacre-in-tadamon-how-two-academics-hunted-down-a-syrian-war-criminal
-
Coverage from The New Arab situates the massacre of one of many, including even the same neighborhood. english.alaraby.co.uk/news/syrian-opposition-reveals-details-horrific-massacre
-
Video evidence and multiple lines of reporting show Palestinian refugees from either Tadamon or the neighboring Yarmouk refugee camp among those killed and thrown into a pit of dead bodies. But "Palestinian" is unmentioned in the two English-language reports on the massacre.
-
See these threads from Palestinian journalists and Palestinians living in Syria: @NBetare/1519785239920394241 @Hazemedia/1520190831759663104 @NBetare/1520147875723890690
-
This massacre is a reminder of the relative disregard of Assad's victims and of Palestinians by the West. And the additional invisibility of Arab regimes victimizing Palestinian refugees from Jordan to Syria to Kuwait.
-
While Palestinians have achieved a certain global moral attention through decades of struggle, scholarship, ad self-representation, this attention has rarely extended across the Palestinian disapora, which has faced severe violence in many places beyond Israeli control.