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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The employee testified that civilian and military surgeons at the hospital, as
well as male nurses and other medical staff, were involved in perpetrating
abuses against wounded patients.
“I have seen detainees being tortured by electrocution, whipping, beating
with batons, and by breaking their legs,” he told the photographer.
“They twist the feet until the leg breaks. They perform operations
without anaesthetics. I saw them slamming detainees’ heads against walls.
They shackle the patients to beds. They deny them water.”
The military hospital in Homs is among the most infamous in the country.
It was one of four government hospitals – including a second in Homs –
identified by Amnesty International last October as places where evidence of
torture was rife, although the practice was also suspected of existing in
other state medical facilities elsewhere in the country.
Testimony gathered from numerous witnesses indicated that even teenage boys
were being beaten, urinated on and taunted by both medical staff and the
secret police.
“In many cases hospital staff appear to have taken part in torture and
ill treatment of the very people they are supposed to care for,” said
Cilina Nasser, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa researcher.
Many doctors who were threatened for refusing to endorse torture in their
hospitals have been arrested or forced to flee the country, according to
activists.
The knowledge of their likely fate has forced many protesters shot during
anti-government demonstrators to seek treatment in badly equipped makeshift
field hospitals, where they are tended to alongside wounded rebels.
But many still end up in government hospitals if they are caught by regime
forces. Captured activists, demonstrators and rebels being held in
government torture facilities are also sometimes brought to the hospitals if
they are close to death, it is claimed.
The latest allegations raise renewed fears for the fate of civilians in
pro-opposition parts of Homs after rebels withdrew from Baba Amr and other
districts in the city following the most intensive bombardment of the
year-long uprising against Mr Assad experienced anywhere in Syria.
Over the weekend, Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary general, said he had received “grisly
reports of summary execution, arbitrary detentions and torture” in
Homs.
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