More than 80,000 people have been killed since Syria’s uprising against Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011, according to a statistic made by SNHR ( Syrian Network for Human Rights )

The revolution victims has been documented carefully by name , date and location of death , verified by photo or video , and all circumstances surrounding their death

The UN commissioned reports for documentation the killing in Syria , depends on SNHR as one of the most important sources of information at all , because of the  high credibility and semi-permanent communication between SNHR and Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights

SNHR doesn’t issue any statistical without supplying files contain very precise details of each death case fully identified by the name of the victim , as well as the date and location of death

Since Syria’s uprising began in March 2011 to10-3-2013 , SNHR documented at least killing of 80159 people, including :

7783 Children

7045 Women

2189 tortured to death

7483 armed rebels

(On the following link to the official website of SNHR , you can find all names and details of the victims )

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBQ0lSb1VXTTI1OVE/edit

Proportion of  women and children to the total number of victims accounted as follows :

80195 ÷ ( 7783+7045) = 5,4

Targeting women and children is one of the international standards to identify the percentage of targeting civilians in wars. This percentage should not exceed 2%, but in the Syrian case, it reached 5.4%, The Syrian government exceeded twice the recognized percentage in wars , and in other months exceeded three times , which is a strict evidence of targeting civilians by Alassad troops

Distribution of recorded death by Syrian Province :

Damascus and countryside : 16111

Homs : 14331

Aleppo : 10769

Idlib : 10538

Daraa : 7169

Hama : 6386

Dier Alzoor : 5463

Damascus : 5112

Lattakia : 1473

Raqqa : 836

Al -Hasaka : 569

Another nationalities ( mostly Palestinian live in Syrian ) : 565

Quneitra : 558

Tartous 338

Swaidaa : 121

It is significant to mention that if we could work freely and move around without prosecutions the actual number will be more than that in thousands , we couldn’t document hundred of massacres and killing cases for many reasons including procedures repeatedly and systematically made by Alassad troops like communications disconnect and blockade  areas for many days , not to mention that the cases like family buried the victims in mass graves as a fear of spread diseases and epidemics  .

All of that because the Syrian government has prevented any of the human right organization to perform their duty on its territory

SNHR doesn’t document Alassad troops murders of Shabiha , security , military and intelligence loyal to Alassad for lack of mechanism to verify them , cause of the ban practiced by the government on SNHR and arresting its members

We have tried repeatedly to communicate with some families of the victims , they reply with abuse , insults and accusations of treason

Results and Recommendations:

Alassad troops with its act of killing systematically more than 80000 Syrian citizens committed thousands of crimes against humanity and war crimes according to articles 7 and 8 of ROME STATUE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT,

Murder;

(b)     Extermination;

(c)     Enslavement;

(d)     Deportation or forcible transfer of population;

(e)     Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

(f)     Torture;

(g)     Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

(h)     Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;

(i)     Enforced disappearance of persons;

(j)     The crime of apartheid;

(k)     Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

1-      2- Crimes against humanity , according to article 8 War Crimes of ROME STATUE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT :

a)     Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:

(i)  Willful killing;

(ii)     Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;

(iii)     Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;

(iv)     Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;

(v)     Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power;

(vi)  Willfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial;

(vii)     Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;

b)     xxii)     Committing rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, as defined in article 7, paragraph 2 (f), enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence also constituting a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions;

Therefore We demand the Security Council and the United Nations and Member States to work at a maximum speed to take all safety procedures for protecting  to protect civilians in Syria, and they are taking responsibility with the Syrian regime in droop for supporting Syrian people and the protection of civilians   ,where they have to comply with the responsibility of ethical, legal and accelerate steps toward reference all those involved in the those massacres to the international Criminal Court.

On the other hand, there are groups of armed rebels committed war crimes condemned in the strongest terms and have been recorded and documented and will be prosecuted criminals and offenders who committed, but remain within the framework of individual attacks unsystematic and non-extensive as we did not record single incident indicates a partisan political or ideological or sectarian or tribal attack

The SNHR holds Bashar Alassad as the Syrian president and the commander of the Armed forces , the hole responsibility of all acts of murders , torture and massacres that have occurred in Syria.

Assad is primarily responsible for ordering these acts, and we consider all officials of the Syrian government , which leads the security and  army operations as a direct partner of this crimes , and  the same for the Iranian government and Hezbullah participate actively killings and holds them legal judiciary and responsibility , as well as all financiers and supporters of the system and who is committing massacres an almost unstopped daily basis, systematic in day or night, and we hold them all reactions and consequences, and that may be issued from the Syrian people, especially relatives of the martyrs and their families .

Author: Impunity Watch Archive