At least 267 Civilians were documented killed in August, in addition to 25 detainees died of torture, a Syrian monitoring group said Sunday.
The 28-page report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the deaths of 267 civilians in August, including 72 children and 21 women (adult female).
This figure is broken down according to the perpetrators in each case, with 130 civilians, including 36 children and 12 women, killed at the hands of Syrian Regime forces, while 60 civilians, including 15 children and seven women, were killed at the hands of Russian forces, and two civilians were killed at the hands of ISIS, while one civilian was killed at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al Sham.
The report also documents in August the deaths of two civilians at the hands of factions of the Armed Opposition, and nine civilians, including four children and one woman, were killed at the hands of Syrian Democratic Forces. The report also documents 63 civilians, including 17 children and one woman, killed at the hands of other parties.
The report also documents in August the deaths of one media worker, who was killed in a detention center of Hay’at Tahrir al Sham.
According to the report, the SNHR’s working team documented at least 25 people died due to torture in August; 18 of these victims died at the hands of Syrian Regime forces, one at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al Sham, one at the hands of Syrian Democratic Forces, and five at the hands of other parties, including a woman and her fetus.
The report also documents seven massacres in August, using the term ‘massacre’ to refer to an attack that caused the death of at least five peaceful individuals in the same incident. According to this definition, the report records in August three massacres committed by Syrian Regime forces, three massacres committed by Russian forces, and one massacre committed by other parties.
The report stresses that the Syrian regime has violated international humanitarian law and customary law, and all UN Security Council resolutions, particularly resolution 2139, resolution 2042, and resolution 2254, all without any accountability.
According to the report, Extremist Islamist groups have violated international humanitarian law by killing civilians, while the indiscriminate and disproportionate bombardment carried out by an alliance of forces comprising International Coalition forces and Syrian Democratic Forces is considered a violation of customary international humanitarian law, inadvertently causing loss of civilian lives or injuries to civilians.
Zaman Al Wasl
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