Damascus/London: Syria has seen many lows but shooting foetus in a mother’s womb is the latest and most cruel of atrocities inflicted on its civilians.
A British surgeon has reportedly revealed that the unborn children of Syrian women are the targets of a sickening war game where a shooter who murders a foetus in its mother’s womb is awarded with cigarettes.
Dr David Nott witnessed evidence of fighters using civilians as target practice and on several occasions shooting pregnant women in the stomach, killing their unborn babies.
Dr Nott, who recently returned from volunteering at a Syrian hospital, said there are local rumours the snipers are guns for hire, working for the Assad regime, are awarded when they “hit the correct targets”. He reportedly said that as women and children would try to cross through the unnamed city where he was stationed, they would be shot by snipers — and their wounds followed disturbing patterns.
“From the first patients that came in in the morning, you could almost tell what you would see for the rest of the day. It was a game,” The Times quoted the doctor as saying. “One day it would be shots to the groin. The next, it would only be the left chest. The day after, we would see no chest wounds; they were all neck [wounds].”
Dr Nott alleged that in his 20 years volunteering in war zones, this is the first time he had witnessed pregnant women being targeted.
He described the day two consecutive patients arrived at his clinic, heavily pregnant with their babies shot to death in their stomachs.
“The women were all shot through the uterus, so that must have been where they were aiming for. I can’t even begin to tell you how awful it was,” he said.
“This was deliberate. It was hell beyond hell.” Dr Nott, who counts Tony Blair among his former patients, recently returned to UK after five weeks in Syria.
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