DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The children of Ali Turkawi al-Ali, from the village of al-Huwayja in al-Ghab area, on Saturday related the details of how an armed terrorist group murdered their 70 year-old father on a road near Jisr al-Shughour a month ago for refusing to bear arms against the Syrian army.
In an interview with the Syrian TV, Malek Ali Tukrkawi al-Ali said "terrorist killed my father on September 29th because he and his family refused to join protest," adding that when the family learned of the crime they were threatened with murder, with terrorists placing bombs in front of houses, burning cars, demolishing houses, burning crops, shooting at a cow barn, and desecrating the father's grave.