What happened in Traymseh

I asked Akram, the Angry Arab chief correspondent in Syria yesterday to give his account. He wrote:
"In the night of 11-12 of July, something big happened in Al-Traimsseh, a tiny village of in the Province of Hama. AS always, we have two contradicting description: for the regime, it was a "Qualitative operation" that "causes heavy losses among terrorists" while the Local Coordination Committees (LLC) considered it a "massacre ".

According to the Syrian official news agency, SANA, the operation took place after an accurate intelligence gathering in cooperation with the residents, adding that the fighting itself didn't any casualties among civilians, but while the Syrian forces were searching the village, they found the dead bodies of a number of citizens who had been abducted and killed by the terrorist groups.

The other account of the LLC (Arabic) said that the at six o'clock in the morning the army surrounded the village preventing civilians from fleeing, while the village was under random fire from machine guns and tanks. The LLC statement said that a group of the Free Syrian Army tried to help in evacuating the wounded and attacked a nearby military checkpoint in an attempt to open a gap so the residents could flee, adding that after five hours of fighting, the army and Shabiha stormed the village and that members of shabiha slaughtered and shoot many people.

But Al-Haqiqa has a different story (Arabic). According to an anonymous source, the Syrian authority received intelligence from the residents that hundreds of armed men were congregating in the village preparing to take revenge of the residents for their position as pro-regime. The leaders of the armed groups were holding a meeting in the house of the village leader (Al-moukhtar) to coordinate the operation when a fighting of several hours took place and resulted in the killing of dozens of the armed men. The source didn't say whether there were civilians among the victims but the author of the report believes that, based on a video showing the victims, most of them were combatants.

My comments:

1- The Free Syrian Army was present in the village. This contradicts the claims of Ryiad Al-Assa'ad, the leader of the FSA (Arabic).

2- It wasn't a simple shelling and execution campaign of "innocent people". The three accounts reported a fighting that took place in the village.

3- Both Sana and LCC said there were civilians among the victims. For Al-Haqiqa, all the victims were fighters.

4- Immediately after the end of the fighting and before conducting any investigation what so ever, the Syrian authorities were able to confirm that it doesn't assume any responsibility for the civilian losses and blamed the armed groups. This assertion looks trivial if not suspicious.

5- Al-Haqiqa report has many flaws. For example, it doesn't explain the strange "fact" that the armed groups didn't slaughter the civilians when they had the chance. Instead, they entered the village then stand still under the nose of the residents in the wait for their leaders to consider their next step risking to be besieged by the army!!!

6- In the absence of an unbiased investigation, and given that the Syrian regime and his armed opposition are both liars and murderers, it is impossible to know the truth. In fact, this, in itself, is a tragedy that can be added to the many other ones that Syria lives in the last fifty years"