SNHR documents the killing of 129 civilians in Syria during July
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said in its report issued today that extrajudicial killings claimed the lives of 129 civilians in Syria in July 2021, including 44 children and 17 women, and 10 victims of torture.
The 25-page report stated that the murder took a broad and systematic pattern by the Assad regime forces and its militias, and that the process of documenting the victims who were killed in Syria became more complicated after the entry of several parties into the Syrian “conflict.”
The report said that, since 2011, the Syrian Network for Human Rights has built complex electronic programs to archive and categorize victims’ data, so that it is possible to distribute the victims according to gender, the place where the victim was killed, the governorate to which the victim belongs, and the party that carried out the killing, and comparisons are made between these parties. , and identify the provinces that lost the largest proportion of their children. The report also distributed the death toll according to the place where they were killed and not according to the governorate to which they belonged.
The report records the death toll of civilian victims whose deaths were documented at the hands of the parties to the “conflict” and the controlling forces in Syria in May, and particularly highlights the victims of children and women, and the victims who died as a result of torture.
According to the report, the statistics contained in it for the number of victims who were killed include extrajudicial killings by the controlling powers, which occurred in violation of both international human rights law or international humanitarian law, and do not include cases of natural deaths or due to disputes between members of society.
The report included a distribution of the death toll according to the actors, and added that there is great difficulty in determining who planted mines, given the multiplicity of forces that controlled the areas in which those explosions occurred. Therefore, the report does not attribute the vast majority of deaths of victims due to mines to A specific party, and none of the active forces in the Syrian “conflict” revealed maps of the places where mines were planted.
