27th anniversary of the massacre of Hasaka prison fire

ARK News: Today marks the 27th anniversary of the massacre of the Ghueran prison in the city of Hasaka in Kurdistan of Syria which killed dozens of Kurdish prisoners in the hands of the Baathist regime on 24/3/1993 after the latter intentionally burned the prison deliberately, according to activists and eyewitnesses at the time.

Details of Hasakah prison fire massacre:

The prison was built in the sixties of the last century during the Syrian-Egyptian unit, which is for about 200 prisoners, but the authorities of the Syrian regime were immerse in it as many times as it can contain.

Before the tragic fire, prisoners were living in difficult conditions as a result of the widespread corruption between the guards and the administration of the prison and the Baathist regime in that prison brought together political prisoners with prisoners of looting and drugs to create contradictions within the prison dormitories.

How did the fire erupt and who stood behind it?

More than one prisoner in al-Hasakah prison confirms that the fire that broke out at around 6 pm on March 24, 1993, and caused the burning of the second dormitory in the central prison in Hasaka, was caused by the complicity of the prison administration with the drug criminals in the prison.

According to witnesses, the prison administration distributed kerosene to prisoners which had been missing before and told prisoners that the kerosene would be cut off so prisoners stored a large amount of kerosene, which caused the fire to ignite the dormitory after the group, which had a relationship with the prison administration fabricating to set the fire, the fire broke out in the dormitory and despite the sound of the prisoners' voices, the prison administration did not open the doors.

The fire began to expand and out of control, especially with the presence of large quantities of kerosene in the dormitory, meanwhile, one of the prisoners in the third dormitory, Qahraman Ali, opened the dormitory door with the key he had taken from the jailer by force after he tried to escape from the place and prisoners began to get out of the dormitory but due to the length of the dormitory, which reaches about 30 meters and the wide area of fire prevented all prisoners from leaving the dormitory and the fire killed about 61 prisoners and injuring others wounds and suffocation due to smoke from the fire, and according to eyewitnesses, all the prisoners in the dormitory lost their lives suffocating after being burned by the fire.

In the wake of the painful incident that left behind more than 61 martyrs and nearly 100 wounded, the Syrian regime authorities executed four people on charges of inciting the fire inside the second dormitory in prison and to hide in this way the circumstances of the case and their role in it.

Although 27 years have passed since the Hasaka Central Prison fire, the details of the incident are still unclear, while all the charges of surviving prisoners and Kurdish leaders are directed towards the Syrian regime by colluding with the perpetrators and deliberately igniting them.

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