The death toll on Tuesday 4/2/2014 reached 79 deaths. Among the dead were five women, 13 children and 19 dead (Among them 11 from Hananu) who died in bombardment of explosive barrels on Aleppo. And among the dead were a man, a woman and a child from the Yarmouk camp that died as a result […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights: 16/12/2013
One hundred and thirty-nine civilians were killed in Syria on Monday 16/12/2013, among them 14 women and 21 children. Aleppo witnessed the most deaths, with over 56 from Aleppo being killed, among them 14 that perished in shelling on al-Indharaat district, as well as 15 that were killed in al-Ansari as a result of shelling […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 11/12/2013
Fifty-eight civilians were killed in Syria on Wednesday 11/12//2013, among them eight women and 15 children. The largest number was killed in Damascus and its suburbs, in which 23 were killed, among them seven from Douma that were killed by regime gunfire and five that were summarily executed by regime forces in al-Nabak (rural Damascus). […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria 22/11/2013
Sixty-four civilians were killed in Syria on Friday 22/11/2013, among them five women and nine children. The largest number killed were from the city of Damascus and its suburbs in which 30 were killed, among them ten unidentified civilians who were found in the district of al-Qadam (Damascus) after regime forces carried out their continuous […]
Daily report on Human Rights Violations in Syria: 20/11/2013
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
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 Human Rights Violations in Syria: 12/11/2013
Sixty-seven civilians were killed in Syria on Tuesday 12/11/2013, among them four women and ten children. The largest number killed was from the city of Damascus, in which 28 were killed, among them five that died in the Yarmouk Camp due to shelling, four from Sayida Zeinab and four from Saqba, three from Douma that […]
Daily Report on Human Rights Violations in Syria: 10/11/2013
Seventy-six civilians were killed in Syria on Sunday 10/11/2013, among them seven women and nine children. The largest death toll was registered in Damascus and its suburbs in which 26 were killed, among them six (including three women and a child) that died due to the shelling on Jayroud, four from Daraya including three that […]
Daily Report on Human Rights Violations in Syria: 9/11/2013
Seventy-five civilians were killed in Syria on Saturday 9/11/2013, among them 12 women and six children. A third of those killed were from the city of Aleppo, in which 26 were killed, among them six (including a woman and three children) who perished as a result of the shelling on Al-Haidariyah district in addition to […]
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 […]