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More UN Shenanigans To Come?

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A Bloody Bit of History Repeating!

The following crimes reported were all carried out by the Syrian regime forces during the killing campaign they launched on unarmed civilians.  June is considered to be the bloodiest month, with at least 2,336 confirmed dead.  This includes 203 children and 225 women.  It averages out to roughly80 people per day.  The statistics from June show that Syrian citizens have been subjected to the gravest violence at the hands of the army and security forces. The Syrian regime perpetrated a large number of massacres, in various Syrian governorates, and harvested the lives of dozens.

The enclosed link includes the documentation of most of the victims’ names, location, photos and videos.  The diagram also illustrates their distribution throughout the duration of the Syrian revolution.  Another diagram shows their distribution in Syrian governorates.  We have been able to document 2,336 victims in June 2012 including:

203 children
225 women
64 killed under torture
151 military personnel

The link below includes the full report of all the names of civilian and military victims as well as most available details for each case. The first few pages include diagrams showing the distribution of victims across Syrian governorates.
http://www.syrianhr.org/Attach/June.pdf

The distribution of victims on governorates was as follows:

Damascus Suburbs: 512
Homs: 447
Idleb: 285
Daraa: 276
Hama: 234
Deir Ezzour: 220
Aleppo: 159
Lattakia: 105
Damascus: 62
Hasakeh: 13
Rakka:12
Tartous: 1
Suweida: 1
Non-Syrian victims: 3

This is the data we were able to collect through the work of more than 200 of our members stationed in different Syrian governorates.  They were able to document and verify the full name, place and time of death for each case.  It must be noted that there have been many cases where it was hard to get access to such details, particularly where massacres took place.  This is because it is standard practice during these massacres for regime forces to besiege the town and black-out all communications.  Thus, the real number of victims is likely to be much higher than recorded.  Additionally, the Syrian government denies all human rights organizations access to its territories.

SNHR and DCHRS hold Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president and commander in chief of the Syrian army, responsible for all acts of homicide, torture, and massacres committed in Syria.  He holds the command responsibility for all of these acts.  All Syrian regime members and heads of the security and military forces, who are directly complicit in these acts, are held responsible.  Further, all the financiers and supporters of this regime, which is committing massacres on a semi-daily basis and killing dozens around the clock, are also responsible.  All these people must face severe consequences and implications stemming from these acts which they are responsible for.

SNHR and DCHR call on the Security Council of the UN and all member states to honor their moral and legal obligations by acting with the utmost urgency to undertake all necessary measures for the protection of Syrian civilians and to accelerate the process of referring all those implicated in the massacres to the International Criminal Court.

All information and data in this report provided by:
Syrian Network for Human Rights in London
Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria

On Saturday 30 June 2012 in the morning, the Syrian regime’s security forces raided the city of Zamalka in al-Ghouta al-Sharqia to the east of the Syrian capital Damascus.  They opened gunfire around 11:00 a.m., killing Abdul Hadi al-Halabi and injuring many others.

Zamalka residents then held the traditional funeral procession for the victims by marching to the Great Mosque.  Security forces then wired a bomb to a car and put it along the path that the mourners would march along.  When mourners passed by it, security forces carried out the explosion, killing at least 72 citizens and wounding 400 others in just a single minute.

A video filmed by a local that shows the car bomb blast just as the funeral procession goes by.

SNHR and DCHRS verified this information by contacting ten different local eyewitnesses.  All ten of the eyewitnesses are still alive and can be contacted by any authority or organization.  These eyewitnesses confirmed that security forces were deployed near al-Tawba Mosque where the car bomb was planted.  In addition, Zamalka Revolution Committee published news, prior to the blast, noting that many suspicious cars had entered the city and that the security forces  stationed at checkpoints had removed their uniforms and dressed in civilian clothing.

About 4,000 citizens walked in the funeral procession for the victim Abdul Hadi al-Halabi.  They marched from the victim’s home towards the Great Mosque and as they passed the al-Tawaba Mosque at 6:40 p.m. the car bomb exploded.

Security forces immediately besieged the city.   They denied medical aid for the wounded and killed a doctor, Jamal Tabranin, with sniper fire while he gave aid to the wounded. There is hard evidence that proves the Syrian regime did not give aid to the wounded rather they chased them down and killed them.  Some of the wounded were transported to the city of Kafr Batna’s hospital al-Fatih Hospital.  Security forces followed the transports, besieged the hospital and attacked both the wounded receiving medical attention and the doctors providing it.

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A video showing the wounded and dead inside a makeshift hospital immediately following the blast.  The wounded are given treatment using only basic medical tools and without the basic necessities like sanitized areas to perform medical operations.  Residents of Zamalka refuse to transport them to public or private hospitals because regime forces have threatened to arrest and kill them.

By a field visit to the site of the crime and by contacting relatives of the victims, SNHR & DCHRS have verified and documented the names of 72 victims killed in the blast.  SNHR & DCHRS notes that there are lost citizens whose whereabouts have not been confirmed.  This fact makes it likely that the number of victims of the massacre will increase.

The mass burial of about 80 victims of the car bomb.

 

All information and videos provided by:

Syrian Network for Human Rights