Syria Update: Huseinie Has Seen Freedom
(transcreation)
Huseinie district of Damascus province has been freed from terrorists just recently. This story is about how the life of a typical Syrian town is affected by the mere presence there of Islamist terrorists.
This hospital has just recently been freed of the militants. A large number of terrorists was killed here. It was Al-Nusra Front militants. There were many foreign mercenaries here. Those are the handwritings they had left upon the walls. This hospital will not resume its functioning in the near future.
This hospital was famous for its sophisticated equipment and highly qualified medical specialists. It had four standard operating rooms, five artificial-kidney units, 12-bed high-intensity care facility, two emergency operating rooms, endoscopy department, tomography room, and ophthalmology department, equipped with ophthalmic lasers. It is all in the past, now.
There is still the smell of medicine in the air. But inside it no longer looks like hospital. That is the kind of cultural advancement that the mercenary militants has brought in here.
As to the hospital’s main operating room, the militants have removed everything of value from here. Anything they could not take away from here was destroyed.
The Huseinie district hospital served this whole neighborhood. People used to come here for treatments. Now, this is all that is left of it, after the militants had visited it.
There is what used to be a dwelling house across the street from the hospital. The house is now connected with the hospital by an underground tunnel. The tunnel is too narrow so only one person could move through it at a time. But it could be used for planting an IED under the road, as well.
The tunnel runs under the road leading right across to the other side of the street. Bits of cables can been seen sticking out and hanging from the rugged sides and the roof of the narrow underground passageway, which hardly has enough room for one grownup person to fit in. Syrian army sappers have not checked the tunnel, yet. Therefore, it would not be safe to try it, right now. There still could be landmines in the tunnel, planted in it by the terrorists. Most probably, the militants had used the tunnel – connecting the hospital to the buildings on the other side of the street – for concealed movement, which must have allowed them to step up their resistance.
The house across from the hospital looks pretty much like a rabbit hole, furnished with this underground passageway leading from the hospital on the front side and several exit routs – leading in different directions – on the backside of the building. The terrorists had several exit routs carved out in different places, pretty much like ground rodents would do.
While fighting for the idea of global caliphate, the terrorists did not forget about chores that are more mundane. They took the fridges from the local private stores – which had been closed – and stockpiled all that equipment in this room. Most probably, they used to sell them for profit.
Next to the dwelling house, there is a school, which has also been looted and used for defense purposes by the terrorists. Just like the hospital nearby, this school was totally devastated. Thus proving once again that the militants bring total chaos along with them. Perhaps, from the militants’ point of view, there is no need in schools and hospitals: things just work themselves out…
The artistic impressions by the terrorists that can be found on the walls of the buildings are a horrible reminder of the scanty personalities that those people really are.
As we are moving on, the city scares us more and more with its devastation and dumbing emptiness. The city was not subjected to radioactive poisoning. Nevertheless, it reminds one of Pripyat in Chernobyl disaster. The streets are empty, there is no children laughter on the playgrounds, and total devastation everywhere.
The militants turned the basement of one of the dwelling houses into prison. Among the prisoners, there were not only the military men (police officers and Syrian army soldiers) but also local civilians, who were kidnaped for ransom or trade.
This is the prison cell where the militants used to keep imprisoned military personnel and those of the civilian captives, which they had any interest in. The militants would usually use their prisoners to exchange them for someone else or sell them for profit. The prisoners were simply held in this rather cold and damp basement.
One of the cells in the basement was used as an interrogation room, which looks more like a torture chamber. Car tires are said to have been used as torture instruments. The militants would put the legs and the head of a prisoner through the tire, then hang him up and beat on his legs and feet with hard plastic tubes.
There are plenty of traces of blood on the walls. Clear evidence of the militants’ interrogation room used as a torture chamber.
This is a fill-out form for those enrolling into the Free Syrian Army. Nearby, an argument for those who would object.
The building of the Regional Polyclinic seems to have been left intact mostly. However, all its equipment is gone. Idealism-minded fighters also needed money. In the name of their idealism they have been looting state-run and private property.
Marat Musin, Andrey Filatov, Victor Kuznetsov, Igor Nadyrshin.
ANNA-News, Damascus.
Huseinie district of Damascus province has been freed from terrorists just recently. This story is about how the life of a typical Syrian town is affected by the mere presence there of Islamist terrorists.
This hospital has just recently been freed of the militants. A large number of terrorists was killed here. It was Al-Nusra Front militants. There were many foreign mercenaries here. Those are the handwritings they had left upon the walls. This hospital will not resume its functioning in the near future.
This hospital was famous for its sophisticated equipment and highly qualified medical specialists. It had four standard operating rooms, five artificial-kidney units, 12-bed high-intensity care facility, two emergency operating rooms, endoscopy department, tomography room, and ophthalmology department, equipped with ophthalmic lasers. It is all in the past, now.
There is still the smell of medicine in the air. But inside it no longer looks like hospital. That is the kind of cultural advancement that the mercenary militants has brought in here.
As to the hospital’s main operating room, the militants have removed everything of value from here. Anything they could not take away from here was destroyed.
The Huseinie district hospital served this whole neighborhood. People used to come here for treatments. Now, this is all that is left of it, after the militants had visited it.
There is what used to be a dwelling house across the street from the hospital. The house is now connected with the hospital by an underground tunnel. The tunnel is too narrow so only one person could move through it at a time. But it could be used for planting an IED under the road, as well.
The tunnel runs under the road leading right across to the other side of the street. Bits of cables can been seen sticking out and hanging from the rugged sides and the roof of the narrow underground passageway, which hardly has enough room for one grownup person to fit in. Syrian army sappers have not checked the tunnel, yet. Therefore, it would not be safe to try it, right now. There still could be landmines in the tunnel, planted in it by the terrorists. Most probably, the militants had used the tunnel – connecting the hospital to the buildings on the other side of the street – for concealed movement, which must have allowed them to step up their resistance.
The house across from the hospital looks pretty much like a rabbit hole, furnished with this underground passageway leading from the hospital on the front side and several exit routs – leading in different directions – on the backside of the building. The terrorists had several exit routs carved out in different places, pretty much like ground rodents would do.
While fighting for the idea of global caliphate, the terrorists did not forget about chores that are more mundane. They took the fridges from the local private stores – which had been closed – and stockpiled all that equipment in this room. Most probably, they used to sell them for profit.
Next to the dwelling house, there is a school, which has also been looted and used for defense purposes by the terrorists. Just like the hospital nearby, this school was totally devastated. Thus proving once again that the militants bring total chaos along with them. Perhaps, from the militants’ point of view, there is no need in schools and hospitals: things just work themselves out…
The artistic impressions by the terrorists that can be found on the walls of the buildings are a horrible reminder of the scanty personalities that those people really are.
As we are moving on, the city scares us more and more with its devastation and dumbing emptiness. The city was not subjected to radioactive poisoning. Nevertheless, it reminds one of Pripyat in Chernobyl disaster. The streets are empty, there is no children laughter on the playgrounds, and total devastation everywhere.
The militants turned the basement of one of the dwelling houses into prison. Among the prisoners, there were not only the military men (police officers and Syrian army soldiers) but also local civilians, who were kidnaped for ransom or trade.
This is the prison cell where the militants used to keep imprisoned military personnel and those of the civilian captives, which they had any interest in. The militants would usually use their prisoners to exchange them for someone else or sell them for profit. The prisoners were simply held in this rather cold and damp basement.
One of the cells in the basement was used as an interrogation room, which looks more like a torture chamber. Car tires are said to have been used as torture instruments. The militants would put the legs and the head of a prisoner through the tire, then hang him up and beat on his legs and feet with hard plastic tubes.
There are plenty of traces of blood on the walls. Clear evidence of the militants’ interrogation room used as a torture chamber.
This is a fill-out form for those enrolling into the Free Syrian Army. Nearby, an argument for those who would object.
The building of the Regional Polyclinic seems to have been left intact mostly. However, all its equipment is gone. Idealism-minded fighters also needed money. In the name of their idealism they have been looting state-run and private property.
Marat Musin, Andrey Filatov, Victor Kuznetsov, Igor Nadyrshin.
ANNA-News, Damascus.
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