Activists of the embattaled city of homs say U.N reports have confirmed 8 massacres only in Syria whilst the massacres of the revolution capital are forgotten.
After 30 months of killing, massacres, bombarding and shelling it is hard to find any area or neiborhood in Homs hasn't damaged or shelled kept safe, Abo Obaidah al-Shami, activist, told Zaman Alwasl very important details about each massacre had committed.
Abo Obaidah felt sorry because
massacres in areas near Homs like Tal-Kalakh,al-Hosn Castle, al-Farhaniyeh and
al-Qaryateen have been forgotten. The same has happened to other Homs neighborhoods
such as al-Refa’ee, al-Adaweyeh, Ashirah, al-Shammas and Deir Ba’alab.
On the other hand, UN commission report
said on Wednesday that at least eight massacres have been perpetrated in Syria
by Assad’s regime and supporters and one by rebels over the past year and a
half.
The commission’s report highlights the
worsening pattern of violence against civilians, including executions and
hospital bombings, as the government battles to retake lost territory from the
rebels, including Islamist and
Jihadists.
Calling Syria a battlefield where
armed forces are getting away with large-scale murder, the commission said that
in each of the incidents since April 2012 “the intentional mass killing and
identity of the perpetrator were confirmed to the commission’s evidentiary
standards.”
Moreover, relentless shelling has
killed thousands of civilians and displaced the populations of entire towns,
the report added.
Massacres and other unlawful killings
are perpetrated with impunity,” the commission concludes. “An untold number of
men, children and women have disappeared. Many are killed in detention;
survivors live with physical and mental scars of torture. Hospitals and schools
have been bombarded.”
most massacres perpetrated in Homs have not been mentioned in U.N report, they have been forgotten, as usual, Abo Obaidah mentioned.
Homs, 140 km (90 miles) north of
Damascus, lies at a strategic crossing linking the capital with army bases in
coastal regions controlled by Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite
Islam that has dominated majority Sunni Syria since the 1960s.
Syria's conflict began in March 2011 largely as peaceful
protests against Assad's rule. It escalated into a civil war after opposition
supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.
More than 200,000 people have been killed in the conflict,
according to Syrian Human rights NGO's and 1.7 million Syrians,
including one million children, have been forced to flee to neighboring
countries, the United Nations says.
The original Arabic Article; Translation by Yusra Ahmed
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