On Wednesday morning, 21st March 2018, the Russian and Syrian regime warplanes committed a brutal massacre against the civilian residents of Kafr Batikh, in the suburb of Idlib, killing (22) civilians, most of whom are children and women while also causing massive destruction to the houses and infrastructure of the town.
It took the Civil defence teams over 3 hours to recover 9 bodies (7 children and 2 women) from a cave where school children and their mothers initially took refuge. However the Russian warplanes hit them with concussion bombs burying them alive in a 4 meter deep hole.
Names of some victims
Child/ Mohamad Bakro Qassoum
Child/ Amana Abudulrahman Qassoum
Child/ Amal Mohamad Handoush
Child/ Omar Bakro Qassoum
Fatima Mohamad Aslan / wife of Mohamad Qassoum
Child/ Omar Mohamad Qassoum
Child/ Batool Mohamad Qassoum
Rahaf Fawaz Qinninb/ wife of Ahmad Omar Qassoum
Child/ Zahra Qassoum
Child/ Maram Omar Hammadi
Child/ Bara’ah Saleh Aslan
Child/ Mariam Abdulmonim Qassoum
Child/ Ayah Ibrahim Qassoum
Child/ Shahid Ibrahim Qassoum
Child/ Na’imah Abdulmonim Qassoum
Child/ Mariam Saleh Aslan
Child/ Afaf Saleh Aslan
Bushra Abdulkareem Aslan / wife of Mahmoud Qassoum
Child/ Ghufran Mahmoud Qassoum
SHRC 21-3-2018