DAMASCUS,(ST)_ child Shaaban Abdullah Hamidafrom Aleppo city spoke in details about his recruitment in the so-called ” descendants of the Prophet ” gang by his uncle, Yahya Aziz Aziz to commit terrorist crimes .
In confessions televised by the Syrian TV yesterday, Hamida said : I was born in 2000 , lived in KaramMyasar in the city of Aleppo, I was working at plastic factory with a person named YousefHammouda, my mother died since I was seven years and my disable father married a second wife and has two sons .
Child Hamida continued :” my uncle Aziz asked me to join the group he belongs to, called ” Forgive me my daddy ” of the ” descendants of the Prophet” gang and offered a sum of money much more than I got in my work ,” and said he would buy me a gun to be proud of in front of my friends .
” I joined the group for about three months and my uncle bought me asmall gun and trained me to use snipers for almost a month , during which he fixed these snipers between tree branches in the orchards because I was not able to carry it,” child Hamida said adding that upon completion of the training , he fixed the sniper machine on the roof of a building against al-Shaar bridge in Aleppo and asked me to shoot at civilians , military men and any civilian or military vehicle .
“My shift for sniping started as from seven o’clock in the morning until four in the afternoon when a person called Shiroused to come after me from four o’clock pm to seven in the evening until the arrival of my uncle , whose shift lasted until seven in the morning when I arrive “, Hamida said.
“I sniped army soldiers who ascended from the western edge of the bridge and civilians who were coming out of the bakery and the cars that I sniped their drivers were left until my uncle Aziz and his group came and took them , ” he added ,pointing out that his uncle used to notify him about groups of the descendants of the Prophet , who would step up to the bridge in order not to snipe them.
He continued that first person he had killed was a man , that when he arrived at the bridge his uncle asked him to open fire at him but he stopped because he was trembling and then his uncle grabbed his hand and killed the man, explaining that he did not sleep for three days but after that he used to killing .
I used to kill every day since I got the sniper machine one or three persons , mostly civilians, and my uncle Aziz was feeling very happy when he asked me about the number of people I had killed and if he was upset of one person , he would ask to kill him after giving me his specifications.
He explained that his uncle used to give him specifications of the gunmen who was at odds with to snipe them and give him five hundred or a thousand pounds as a reward for each sniped person .
Child Hamida added :I fired at the army soldiers on the bridge several times and every time I kill one or two and when they pay attention to the presence of a sniper I was afraid and stopped sniping and contact my uncle who came with three armed men and stood at the entrance of the building so that they can get me out if the building is exposed to an attack.
” I have killed about ten soldiers , 13 civilians and nine militants and my mission ended after sniper Shiro out of jealousy told my father that I was working with my uncle Aziz and that he is torturing me and my father asked me to tell my uncle that I am sick so that I can go to him and I did what he told me “, he said, pointing out that his father sent him money and they escaped together to Hama city in order not to continue working with the armed group .
“After our arrival in Hama , we received aid from the Syrian Red Crescent for three months and then we moved to Tartous and stayed with a person named Jaber who owns a strawberry farm , where I worked for three months , and then worked at another farm for two months and then we rented a house in EinShreitaarea for 8 thousand pounds”, the child detailed.
” I was able to kill anyone because I got used to it I no longer feel anything towards those I kill and I used to say ” In the name of God” on the person three times before I kill him.” He said.
T. Fateh