Abdulaziz al-Khalifa, Baladi News
Syrian and Arab journalists and activists said that the Lebanese army is responsible for the death of 7 Syrian refugees under torture in its prisons.
The Lebanese army declared on Tuesday that 4 Syrian men who were arrested during a raid on a refugee camp on Friday died due to chronic diseases. The statement that was published on the official website of the Lebanese army said that the men who died already had health problems, but the during the regular medical checkups after the arrest, their conditions deteriorated and they passed away.
The Lebanese army arrested last Friday more than 350 Syrian refugees after raiding the refugees camps in the town of Arsal, and activists confirmed that the raid resulted in martyrs and casualties among the refugees.
The last information by human rights sources concerning the number of the Syrian refugees who were killed under torture by the Lebanese army denote that they are ten victims and eight of them were buried under pressure by the army without allowing anyone to take photos of them.
The sources added that lawyers have asked the parents not to take the bodies of their sons, while 3 bodies are still in one of the army's barracks in al-Bekaa.
A number of lawyers are still waiting to be appointed by the parents of the victims in order to start legal procedures and see the bodies, but the Lebanese security forces are preventing the notary public from attending in order to prevent the lawyers from being legally appointed.
On the other hand, 4 Syrian refugees were killed and dozens were wounded due to the fires that broke out last Sunday in a refugee camp in Lebanon; moreover, a Syrian girl was killed and seven others wounded following the burning of a refugee camp in Tal Sarhoun in Lebanon on Tuesday.
Syrian activists accused Hezbollah militias of pushing the Lebanese army to attack the camps of the Syrian refugees along with their responsibility of setting the fires in the camps and they attributed this to the will by Hezbollah to push the Syrians to go back to the regime-held regions for the sake of recruiting them in the ranks of regime forces.