I wondered why Zamalka was so familiar as I was writing my previous comment up, turns out I covered it before. There has been persistent shelling from Assad lo

I wondered why Zamalka was so familiar as I was writing my previous comment up, turns out I covered it before. There has been persistent shelling from Assad loyalist neighborhoods down onto Zamalka below it. One video of such volleys of indiscriminate fire captured the essence of the situation, so I took frames of the video and stitched them into a panorama with a wider field of view than what the video provided[1]. The neighborhood with what most likely is howitzers is al-Assad,[2] and I say howitzers due to the neighborhood being military housing for the military artillery base north of it. This is very striking to what was documented to happen on the other side of Damascus to the west, where another set of military housing was scene wanton violence. In Jdaidat Artouz civilians were taken by Assad's military officers and lynched to death in a heap at the military family housing block either in or near the town (Jdaidat Artouz or Moadamiyet al-Shams). Video taken by some of the offenders shows the victims unloaded from a military truck being struck while shouted at by military and civilian persons. Later video shows the the pile of victims mostly motionless. Even later video shows them being further crushed with a tractor, throats slit. Both cases have the military feeding off victim populations as if they were supermarket meat, there for picking and abuse. With offenders deployed from military housing. The latter case documented by the offenders themselves. [1] http://i.imgur.com/XM85Q1q.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XM85Q1q.jpg [2] http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.551696&lon=36.378479&z=13&m=b&show=/24019366/Dhahiyat-al-Asad http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.551696&lon=36.378479&z=... [3] http://storyful.com/stories/41049 http://storyful.com/stories/41049