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Rural Damascus: A heavy file of Massacres, Siege, and War Crimes

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Rural Damascus surrounds the capital, Damascus, on all sides, and most of its areas are rural and agricultural. Before the popular uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, rural Damascus was home to approximately 2.2 million people. The regime of the previous president, Hafiz al-Assad, had separated rural Damascus from the capital during the seventies […]

Daily Reports on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 27/02/2014

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The death toll on Thursday 27/02/2014 reached 77 deaths, including four women and five children. Among those killed, six men and two women from Sinjar (Idlib) died as a result of a car bomb explosion in the town market and a man from al-Za’lana (Aleppo) died as a result of cluster bombs. Five men from […]

Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 07/12/2013

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One hundred and thirty-four civilians were killed in Syria on Saturday 7/12/2013, among them 21 women and 39 children. The largest number of killings took place in Damascus and its suburbs, in which 61 were killed, among them 43 that perished in a massacre committed by the regime in al-Nabak, rural Damascus; in addition to […]

Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 28/12/2013

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One hundred and twenty-eight civilians were killed in Syria on Thursday 28/11/2013, among them twelve women and seventeen children. The city of Aleppo witnessed the highest death toll of 41 civilians, among them 14 (including two women and seven children) that died in shelling on the Qadi Askar district, and six others (including three women […]

Daily report on Human Rights Violations in Syria: 20/11/2013

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Fifty-one civilians were killed on Wednesday 20/11/2013, among them four women and five children. Close to half of those killed were from Damascus and its suburbs, in which 25 were killed, among them four that were killed in the continuous shelling on the city of al-Nabak and three from Harasta in rural Damascus. Eleven were […]

Genocide: The politics of Blockade

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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 on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 11/10/2013

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One hundred and fourteen civilians were killed in Syria on Friday 11/10/2013, among them nine women and 24 children. The largest number of killings took place in the province of Damascus, and in which 37 were killed, among them nine who were killed when the mosques of Saqba and Kafarbatna (rural Damascus) were targeted at […]