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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent

Perpetrator of Syria’s Tadamon massacre still working on military base

Amjad Yousef aiming gun
A still from a leaked video shows Amjad Yousef during the Tadamon massacre. Photograph: Guardian video

The Syrian intelligence officer at the centre of one of the most shocking acts of the civil war – the Tadamon massacre – is still working on a military base outside Damascus and has since been accused by colleagues of directing up to a dozen more mass killings.

Amjad Yousef, a major in one of Syria’s most feared intelligence units, is operating from the Kafr Sousa base, where he has been for most of the past six months since the Guardian revealed his role in shooting dead dozens of people across a death pit in Tadamon, a suburb of the Syrian capital in 2013.

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