Prepared by Syrian Network for Human Rights

The Highest rate of women killed in this month: 303 women, an average of 10 women a day.

The Syrian government’s Armed Forces through the daily shelling, raids, massacres, and torture of detainees to death, in addition to the causalities of armed rebels through clashes, killed 3,379 civilians including 134 people who were tortured to death.

3,379 people were killed, an average of 109 people a day, 5 people an hour.

Among the 3,379 killed: 2,663 civilians, 716 armed rebels.

Among the 2663 civilians SNHR documented:

1-     368 child-victims with an average of 13 children a day.  The proportion of the children killed relative to the death toll is 16%, a very high rate and strict evidence that the Syrian Government’s Armed Forces targets  civilians.

2-      303 female victims.  The proportion of female victims is 11%, also a very high rate and strict evidence that the Syrian Government’s Armed Forces targets civilians.

3-     134 tortured to death, an average of 5 people a day tortured to death in official or unofficial detention centers.

4-     7 people killed by shelling with poisonous gases on their residential areas, all of them in the Damascus countryside:

4-1- Three civilians in Harasta 27-5-2013

4-2- Two in Doma 26-5-2013

4-3- Two in Adra 23-5-2013

An ethnic cleansing massacre also occurred in Baniyas town and in Tartous city.

SNHR documented in Albaiyda village/Baniyas: 265 victims, including 42 children , 28 women on 2-5-2013;

SNHR documented in the Ras Alnabaa neighborhood/Baniyas: 198 victims, including 63 children, 43 women on 4-5-2013

SNHR would like to indicate that this is what we could document from our deployed members in all of the Syrian provinces, classified by names, date, place, and photo or video.

We couldn’t document many cases involving massacres and killing for many reasons, including procedures that are repeatedly and systematically brought about by the Syrian Government’s Armed Forces such as communications disconnection and blockading areas for many days.  This means the actual numbers are likely higher than the ones provided.  Not to mention, the Syrian government has prevented human rights organizations from performing their duty in its territory

 

Total numbers of victims dispersed all across  provinces of Syria is as follows:

Damascus and countryside: 744

Homs: 597

Aleppo: 531

Tartous: 411

Hama: 267

Daraa: 252

Idlib: 219

Deir Alzour:129

Raqqa: 77

Lattakia: 75

Qunaitra: 44

Hasaka: 30

Swidaa: 3

 

It should be mentioned that the work mechanism of the Syrian Network for Human Rights’ Group bases its statistics on precise verification and our documentation method, and on our members who are deployed in the Syrian territory to gather facts and take written testimonies, live images and videos, oral and registered interviews, and audio and video interviews so as to complement the efforts exerted to document human rights violations under the restrictions imposed by the Syrian government on the network members or any other Human Rights organization to work on Syrian territory.  The real number may exceed in the dozens, especially with massacres, where the Syrian government imposes blockage and cuts communications.

 

Legal conclusions

1-     SNHR is assured that the Syrian Government’s Armed Groups and Shabiha violated Previsions of Human Rights International Law, which protect the right of life, along with dozens of cases considered as a war crimes (murder cases)

Undoubted Evidence through hundreds of eyewitness stories, that more than 90% of the expanded and individual attacks directed against civilians, all contrary to the Syrian Government’s claims that they are fighting Al-Qaeda and terrorists

2-     SNHR also indicates that the documented events are crimes against humanity, where the conditions of widespread and systematic direct attacks against civilian population groups in most cases of murder, has been achieved

Condemnation and Responsibilities:

Responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts, similarly Customary IHL provides that the state is responsible for all acts committed by the members of its military and security forces, thus the states is responsible of wrongful acts committed by its military and security forces including crimes against humanity.

 

SNHR holds the Syrian President Commander in Chief of the Syrian army, Bashar al-Assad, responsible for all acts of homicide, torture and massacres perpetrated in Syria as he holds the primary responsibility for giving the orders for these acts.  SNHR considers all Syrian regime members and heads of the security and military bodies directly complicity in those acts.  Similarly, SNHR considers the Iranian government and Hezbollah as direct partners in the acts of homicide, who shall legally and judicially be held liable for those acts along with all those funding and supporting the Syrian regime, which is systematically committing massacres on a daily basis.  SNHR holds all the above mentioned parties responsible for all consequences and potential reactions from the Syrian people in general and the families of the victims in particular.

 

Recommendations:

Human right council:

1-    Call upon the Security Council and relevant organizations to take upon their responsibility towards what is happening to the Syrian children, who is affected by momentary nonstop killing.

2-    Exert pressure on the Syrian government to stop the random and deliberate shelling of civilians.

3-    Hold the allies and supporter of the Syrian government: Russia, Iran, and China, morally and physically responsible to the killing in Syria.

4-    Serious attention of the disastrous situation, and to give it a high priority, and try to take care of victims’ children and their families.

Security Council:

1-    Decide to refer all the criminals and the involved to the ICC.

2-    Warn the Syrian Government of the repercussions of using brutal methods under the systematic killing and send clear messages about it.

Arab League:

1-    Demand the Human Rights Council and United Nations to give this serious issue the right attention and to follow up with its developments.

2-    Political and diplomatic pressure on the Syrian Government Troops’ main allies – Russia, Iran, and China – to prevent them from continuously providing cover and international and political protection for all the crimes committed against the Syrian people and hold them morally and physically responsible for all the excesses of the Syrian Government Troops.