Kill or be killed.

That is the kind of life self-described assassin for the Syrian government Sa’er says he was forced into.

CNN reported Wednesday the story of a man claiming to have killed as many as 70 opposition forces, and even slit a man’s throat.

Sa’er claims the government turned him and others into monsters that would have killed their own fathers.

He spoke of an incident in which two police officers captured a man. A major put a gun to Sa’er’s head and ordered him to kill the prisoner, he said.

“He said, ‘I am going to count to 10.’ He cocked the gun, fired into the air and put it to my head again. I slaughtered him,” Sa’er says.

He says he was simply carrying out orders.

Sa’er, a gunman for the regime, was captured after his bus was ambushed by unknown assailants. He agreed to be filmed but requested his identity be obscured, according to CNN.

Syria’s Bashar Assad regime is under fierce criticism from the international community for its bloody crackdown, which the United Nations estimates has killed more than 5,400 people to date.

President Assad claims his forces are battling terrorists, while the opposition says he is terrorizing people of the Middle-Eastern nation.



By Yoon Min-sik

(minsikyoon@heraldcorp.com)