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Half naked, unarmed and trembling with fear, a group of captured pro-Assad soldiers are made to kneel to face a wall in Syria’s war-torn Aleppo.
Their crime is to have been members of Shabiha, a militia group aligned to President Bashar al Assad’s regime, and their sentence has been decided.
Even through the grainy images of this amateur recording, the guns in their captors’ hands are clear, as is the punishment awaits them.
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Execution: Half naked, unarmed and trembling with fear, a group of captured pro-Assad soldiers are made to kneel to face a wall in Syria’s war-torn Aleppo
At one point a man in the crowd attempts to stop the filming by putting his hand over the camera lens.
But seconds later the air is filled with the deafening rattle of machine gun fire.
