Syrian Rebel Commander Captured On Video Ripping Out And Eating The Heart Of A Pro-Assad Fighter

Is This The Most Disgusting Atrocity Filmed In The Syrian Civil War? -- Foreign Policy

What we know about the Syrian rebel commander captured on video ripping out and eating the heart of a pro-Assad fighter.

Even by the standards of Syria's ever-worsening stream of atrocity and massacre videos, the latest footage from the country cannot fail to shock for its sheer savagery. The video, posted on May 12 but filmed on March 26 near the Syrian town of Qusayr, on the border with Lebanon, opens by calmly filming a rebel commander cutting open the chest of what we assume is a deceased pro-Bashar al-Assad fighter, removing his heart and liver with surgical precision and sang-froid.

The cameraman jokes with the commander, telling him, "God Bless you Abu Sakkar, it looks like you are drawing a love heart [on his chest]!" The commander, the man called Abu Sakkar, then picks up the bloody liver and heart and speaks directly into the camera, delivering a chilling threat:

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