The Syrian regime has been using so-called barrel bombs – containers filled with explosive material since 2012 to kill as many victims as possible and inflict as much wide destruction as possible.
According to new report by the Syrian Network For Human Rights (SNHR), the first documented barrel bomb attack was on July 18, 2012 in Dael city, northern Daraa governorate, where five civilians were killed in that attack, including one female child and three women while about eight others were injured.
It took the Security Council about a year and a half to adopt resolution 2139 on February 22, 2014, which condemned the use of barrel bombs, However, the Syrian regime is still raining down the areas outside of its control with tens of barrel bombs.
The regime forces have used 26,479 barrel bombs since the start of the Russian intervention on September 30, 2015, despite the promises made by Vitaly Churkin, the former Russian representative to the United Nations, in October 2015 where he said that the regime would stop bombing with barrel bombs.
At least 3,503 have been dropped since the start of 2018 by the Syrian regime, where the month of March recorded the highest number of barrel bombs, followed by April while the report records that 67 barrel bombs at least were dropped in August, killing seven civilians, including two children and one woman (adult female). Also, a number of barrel bombs were used in attacks on vital civilian facilities, as the report records one attack on a vital civilian facility (a school).
The Syrian regime has violated Security Council resolutions 2139 and 2254, and used barrel bombs in a systematic, widespread manner.
Also, the Syrian regime, through the crime of willful killing, has violated Article 7 and Article 8 of Rome Statute.
Zaman Al Wasl
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