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Syria: Mounting Casualties from Cluster Munitions

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More Than 150 Documented Attacks in 6 Months (New York) – Syrian forces’ use of cluster munitions in residential areas is causing mounting civilian casualties, Human Rights Watch said today. An initial review of available information has identified at least 119 locations across Syria where at least 156 cluster bombs have been used in the past six months. Human […]

Joint letter to protest the use of cluster bombs in Syria

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Mr.Firas AL RASHIDI Acting Ambassador/First Secretary Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in Japan Your Excellency, We, the citizens of Japan, deeply regret that a large number of Syrian citizens have been victimized in the recent conflict that has been escalating since March 2011. We hope the conflict to end promptly without further sacrifice in […]

The gruesome toll of deadly cluster bombs in Syria

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Author(s): Mary Wareham Published in: CNN It was cloudy the afternoon of January 3 when residents say the cluster bombs fell on the Syrian town of Latamneh. Three rockets containing the cluster munitions fell in nearby fields, apparently doing no harm, but a fourth landed on the street between residential buildings. Its impact was devastating. […]

Syria: Army Using New Type of Cluster Munition

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Rocket Attacks and Explosive Remnants Cause Civilian Casualties (Washington, DC) – Syrian forces are using notoriously indiscriminate rockets that contain explosive submunitions. Evidence indicates that Syrian forces used BM-21 Grad multi-barrel rocket launchers to deliver cluster munitions in attacks near the city of Idlib in December 2012 and in Latamneh, a town northwest of Hama, […]

Victims of Tal Rifa’t Massacre reach 18

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Field activists working in welfare and rescue work have confirmed that the number of those killed in the Tal Rif’at massacre in Aleppo have risen to 18, in an attack by Syrian regime war planes on the village, using explosive barrels and cluster bombs. A whole district was wiped out, killing 18 and injuring more […]

Three Massacres on Sunday 16/12/12

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The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) documented a number of human rights violations which took place in Syria on Sunday 16/12/12, and which covered shelling in its variety (by plane, tanks, Mortar rockets and so on), as well as the use of live fire. Number of those killed in each province:   Damascus and its […]

Syria: Incendiary Weapons Used in Populated Areas

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Evidence Military Used Bombs That Cause Horrendous Burns   (Washington, DC) – The Syrian military has used air-delivered incendiary bombs in at least four locations across Syria since mid-November 2012. The conclusion is based on interviews with four witnesses and multiple videos analyzed by Human Rights Watch. The Syrian military should cease its use of incendiary weapons […]

Syria: Incendiary weapons used in Populated Areas

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Syria: Incendiary Weapons Used in Populated Areas Evidence Military Used Bombs That Cause Horrendous Burns   DECEMBER 12, 2012   Steve Goose, Arms division director (Washington, DC) – The Syrian military has used air-delivered incendiary bombs in at least four locations across Syria since mid-November2012, Human Rights Watch said today. The conclusion is based on […]

Victims of 5/12/2012

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Over 40 people have been killed in Syria so far today (up to 2pm), including women and children, with massacres taking place across rural Damascus, Aleppo and Idlib.   In Idlib, North Syria, intense air bombardment in Talmans by the Syrian regime forces wiped out a whole family, killing five of its members and injuring […]

Syria: More Cluster Bomb Attacks

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INTRODUCTION: Mounting evidence shows that Syria’s air force is continuing to drop cluster bombs on towns across five governorates despite the Syrian army’s denial that it is using them, Human Rights Watch said today. Data compiled by Human Rights Watch show an important increase in the use of cluster bombs in the past two weeks. […]