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On Saturday, May 11, as French journalist Sofia Amara was surfing the web, she chanced upon a video clip that left her shocked, sickened, angry, and ultimately so despairing, the seasoned war reporter collapsed crying.
The gruesome video appeared to feature a Syrian rebel commander, dressed in camouflage trousers, cutting open the corpse of what appeared to be a soldier loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
The rebel then proceeds to carve out the heart and liver out of the corpse.
“I swear to God, soldiers of Bashar, you dogs – we will eat your hearts and livers,” he says, looking into the camera. At the end of the 30-second clip, the rebel commander puts the corpse’s heart in his mouth, as if he’s about to eat it.
“The second I played the video, I recognised him,” said Amara in a phone interview with FRANCE 24 from the Lebanese capital of Beirut. “I recognized him because of his voice, his mannerisms, his clothes – he was always wearing those clothes.”
FRANCE 24 has decided not to post the disturbing footage of the rebel mutilating the corpse although the clip is available on the Internet.
More: http://www.france24.com/en/20130514-syri…man-rights