BALADI NEWS
The SNHR released its monthly special report today, which documents the human rights situation in Syria, outlining the most notable human rights violations that the SNHR documented in April 2019 at the hands of the main perpetrator parties to the conflict in Syria.
The report documents in April the deaths of 324 civilians, including 74 children and 44 women (adult female), as well as one media worker at the hands of the main perpetrator parties in Syria. It also documents the deaths of 54 individuals who died due to torture, and at least nine massacres.
The report also documents at least 459 cases of arbitrary arrests, including 34 children, 23 women (adult female), with the largest number of these carried out by Syrian Regime forces in the governorates of Damascus Suburbs, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor.
According to the report, at least 51 attacks on vital civilian facilities were recorded in April, of which 15 attacks were on schools, six were on medical facilities and eight others were on places of worship, with the highest rate of attacks being carried out at the hands of the Syrian-Russian alliance forces by carrying out 42 attacks, all of which were in the fourth de-escalation zone
The report details the record of indiscriminate and outlawed attacks documented in April, where Syrian Regime forces carried out at least 10 cluster munitions attacks using missile launchers, and resulted in the deaths of 28 civilians, including nine children and four women.
The report notes that at the end of April also saw the Syrian regime’s using the weapon of barrel bombs in the fourth de-escalation zone for the first time since the Sochi Agreement entered into force.
The report stresses that the Syrian regime has violated international humanitarian law and customary law, and a number of UN Security Council resolutions, particularly resolution 2139, resolution 2042 on the release of detainees, and resolution 2254, all without any accountability.
According to the report, Islamist extremist groups as well as factions of the Armed Opposition, also carried out extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and torture, as well as indiscriminate shelling that caused destruction of vital civilian facilities. The report adds that the instances of indiscriminate and disproportionate bombardment carried out by the alliance of International Coalition forces and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are considered to be in clear violation of international humanitarian law, with indiscriminate killings amounting to war crimes.
Source: SNHR.