The “Girls for Peace” group in Homs has issued a report on the regime and Syrian security checkpoints in Homs, and the violations faced by civilians at these checkpoints on a daily basis. The report also discussed the crimes of arbitrary detention and sniper shots carried out by snipers across the city, particularly those in […]
Genocide: The politics of Blockade
Throughout history, the political strategy of laying siege on cities has been practiced on a wide scale in many regions across the world, the most famous examples in our recent history being that of Sarajevo in the 1990s (blocked off by the Serbian army), the siege of Grozny imposed by Russian forces, and the blockade […]
Daily Report of Human Rights Violations in Syria: 15/11/2013
One hundred and eight civilians were killed in Syria on 15/11/2013, among them ten women and 13 children. The largest number killed was from Homs, in which 37 were killed, among them four that perished in shelling on the village of Taldo. In Hama, 24 were killed, among them a whole family of eight members […]