(New York Times) Liam Stack and Hania Mourtada - Rights organizations researching the massacre of 125 to 150 Syrian civilians belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect on Tuesday in Aqrab said Wednesday that members of the shabiha, a pro-government Alawite militia, were the killers. In videotaped testimony, survivors say that members of the shabiha gathered civilians inside a building as the Free Syrian Army approached the village. Survivors said the shabiha turned their weapons on the same civilians they had been professing to defend.
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