punishment raid in samashki

I hesitate to write about the atrocities we saw because I fear that people will think I am exaggerating. I saw dozens of charred corpses of women and children lying in the courtyard of the mosque, which had been destroyed. The first thing my eye fell on was the burned body of a baby, lying in the foetal position. The flesh had burned off the arms and you could see the white of the finger bones. I could not tell if it was a girl or boy. I saw a wild-eyed woman emerge from a burned-out house holding a dead baby. Lorries with bodies piled in the back rolled through the streets on the way to the cemetery.