From Akram, the Angry Arab's correspondent in Syria:
"In the past two weeks, I read a lot of reports, most of which are based on accounts of "activists", about flagrant abuses of the civilians rights that the Syrian regime is committing in the context of its conflict against the armed rebels in Aleppo Province. I'm usually reluctant to publish posts that are based on opposition reports. Such reports are, obviously, biased so one must read them carefully. Moreover, in most cases, they aren't supported by credible evidences or third-party sources, and are full of exaggerations and false additions (video footage, photo shots, ...). Actually, I had a bad experience with this issues, when I sent a post referring to photos of Azaz massacre before realizing that some of the most tragic ones belonged to other incidents.
But most of the reports about Aleppo, that I haven't mentioned before, are confirmed. In its latest report about the situation in Syria, Amnesty International documented some of the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime in Aleppo. The violations can be summarized as follows:
I can, now, guide people who read Arabic to some of the reports about atrocities committed against civilians (here, here, here and here)
But civilian victims in other parts of Syria aren't as "lucky" as their fellows of Aleppo. Journalists and human rights bodies aren't able to access Damascus, Dara'a and Deir-Ezzor, where fierce battles take place, accompanied by reports "that can't be verified by third-parties" about grave crimes perpetuated by the Syrian regime. For all those in Syria who are dying like animals without being buried in graves that hold their names and without their relatives have the right to mourn for them, I find myself obliged, with a fully clear conscience, to break, for only one time, the rule which I have committed my self to follow, by referring to some of yesterday and today "unverifiable" reports: Kfar-Sousseh, Nahr-Eishah, (Damascus), Moua'adamyieh, Darayia (Rural Damascus) and Al-Heraq (Dara'a)."
"In the past two weeks, I read a lot of reports, most of which are based on accounts of "activists", about flagrant abuses of the civilians rights that the Syrian regime is committing in the context of its conflict against the armed rebels in Aleppo Province. I'm usually reluctant to publish posts that are based on opposition reports. Such reports are, obviously, biased so one must read them carefully. Moreover, in most cases, they aren't supported by credible evidences or third-party sources, and are full of exaggerations and false additions (video footage, photo shots, ...). Actually, I had a bad experience with this issues, when I sent a post referring to photos of Azaz massacre before realizing that some of the most tragic ones belonged to other incidents.
But most of the reports about Aleppo, that I haven't mentioned before, are confirmed. In its latest report about the situation in Syria, Amnesty International documented some of the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime in Aleppo. The violations can be summarized as follows:
- Discriminated bombardment of "densely populated urban areas" using low precision weapons (artillery, mortars, tanks, unguided bombs and rockets launched by war planes). Human Rights Watch had, previously, documented this phenomenon in two reports on Azaz and on an Aleppo hospital.
- Air strikes against bakeries where people were gathering for bread.
- Extrajudicial executions committed by both regime and rebels against civilian and combatant detainees.
I can, now, guide people who read Arabic to some of the reports about atrocities committed against civilians (here, here, here and here)
But civilian victims in other parts of Syria aren't as "lucky" as their fellows of Aleppo. Journalists and human rights bodies aren't able to access Damascus, Dara'a and Deir-Ezzor, where fierce battles take place, accompanied by reports "that can't be verified by third-parties" about grave crimes perpetuated by the Syrian regime. For all those in Syria who are dying like animals without being buried in graves that hold their names and without their relatives have the right to mourn for them, I find myself obliged, with a fully clear conscience, to break, for only one time, the rule which I have committed my self to follow, by referring to some of yesterday and today "unverifiable" reports: Kfar-Sousseh, Nahr-Eishah, (Damascus), Moua'adamyieh, Darayia (Rural Damascus) and Al-Heraq (Dara'a)."
