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That scene in Syria, that moment, was like a scene from the Middle Ages, the kind of thing you read about in history books. The war in Syria has reached the point where a person can be mercilessly killed in front of hundreds of people—who enjoy the spectacle. see the pictures after the cut...
As a human being I would never have wished to see what I saw. But as a journalist I have a camera and a responsibility. I have a responsibility to share what I saw that day. That’s why I am making this statement and that’s why I took the photographs. I will close this chapter soon and try never to remember it.
I don’t know how old the victim was but he was young. He was forced to
his knees. The rebels around him read out his crimes from a sheet of
paper. They stood around him. The young man was on his knees on the
ground, his hands tied. He seemed frozen.
Two rebels whispered something into his ear and the young man replied in an innocent and sad manner, but I couldn’t understand what he said because I don’t speak Arabic.
At the moment of execution the rebels grasped his throat. The young man
put up a struggle. Three or four rebels pinned him down. The man tried
to protect his throat with his hands, which were still tied together. He
tried to resist but they were stronger than he was and they cut his
throat. They raised his head into the air. People waved their guns and
cheered. Everyone was happy that the execution had gone ahead.
Patrick Witty is the International Picture Editor at TIME.
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