CarwilBJ’s avatarCarwilBJ’s Twitter Archive—№ 31,527

                1. 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
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                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
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              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
          1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
            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.
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          See these threads from Palestinian journalists and Palestinians living in Syria: @NBetare/1519785239920394241 @Hazemedia/1520190831759663104 @NBetare/1520147875723890690
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        They raise important points about the near invisibility of the individual victims in these accounts, as well as Palestinian identity being subsumed in Sunni, "regime supporters" etc.
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      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.
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    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.