The death toll on Sunday 30/03/2014 reached 48 deaths, including four women and six children. Among those killed was a man in his sixties from Douma (Rural Damascus) who died as a result of lack of medical supplies due to the siege imposed by regime forces on Eastern Ghouta. A child from Shab’a (Rural Damascus) […]
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: 29/10/2013
Sixty-eight civilians were killed in Syria on Tuesday 29/10/2013, among them five women and twelve children. The largest number killed were documented in the city of Aleppo, in which 15 were killed, including three from Bayanoun (rural Aleppo) who died as a result of shelling, two from Al-Sfeerah (rural Aleppo) who fell in clashes and […]