82-year-old Muazzez Kerrich since the mass of the Hama in Syria in 1982 did not receive news of her missing.
For decades, the Baas party for banned any mention of the massacre. But after the fall, which ruled in Syria the year 61 of the regime in December 2024, the survivors began to break the silence.
The forces of the regime raided their homes and took boys over 15 years old. Kerriche was forced to make a choice between their two sons.
not wanting to lose both at once, she gave from her eldest son, Majid, to save his younger brother.
Majid returned home 13 years later, but found that his father died.
Kerrich recalls that the attacks on Hama began on the evening of February 2, 1982, on the day her family returned from Aleppo.
“I was so afraid that they would kill my children, because they already inflicted stab wounds on people.
The attacks began in the evening. The windows trembled with intense tank shelling. We went down to the basement and piled the ground and books out the door, ”she said.
According to the woman, at first they heard the rumble of airplanes, and on the second day of the massacre, the tanks began to be sheated at home.
The interlocutor of the agency called the moment when she was forced to abandon her son, “the most difficult moment” in her life.
Kerrich added that the members of the so -called defense battalions associated with Rifat Assad also detained her husband during raids.
Kerrich said that she left the house on the third day of attacks to find her brother’s daughter.
“When they let us out of the house, we saw a lot of things. We saw how they killed people. The eastern part of the Omar Ibn Hattaba mosque was full of corpses,” she said.
She said that soldiers from defense battalions also tried to attack women in this area.
Her son, 65-year-old Majid Rammal, said that before the military came to their house, they watched what was happening from the outside from the basement window.
“From there we saw how they kill unarmed civilians. They killed the son of our neighbor Hatim with a shot from the tank. Only those who have experienced it know this fear. I sacrificed myself so that my mother could save my brother. When they can be saved. When they I took us, I thought where they were executing us. “
Rammal said that they were taken in a military car to a porcelain factory on the road to Homs.
“The factory was very scary. The place resembled a film of horrors. They tortured people before killing them. They gagged their eyes to Hikmet Hani, an ophthalmologist with a piece of iron and executed it in an hour.”
The agency’s interlocutor said that he was kept at the factory for a month.
“They brought for interrogation with 10 people, and led off with three. During the interrogation, they accused us of armed militants. Their accusations were ready, they accused everyone. I rejected these accusations.”
According to Rammal, he was later transferred to Tadmore prison, where he was tortured for 13 years.