Squeeze Syria’s Thug-in-Chief Enough to Make It Hurt: View
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June 1 (Bloomberg) -- In his posed photograph, the boy is atenderfoot teenager -- round-faced, bangs askew, biting hislower lip. In the final video image of 13-year-old Hamzah al-Khateeb, released on YouTube, his head is misshapen, his bodymarred with cuts, bullet wounds, burns and a hole where hispenis ought to be.
This is the latest handiwork of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Young Hamzah was detained by security forceswhen he attended an opposition rally with his father on April 29in their hometown of al-Jiza. A month later, his tortured corpsewas returned to his family.