The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) Friday that 67 civilians were killed in Syria in March, including 20 children, 3 women, and 7 detainees who died as a result of torture.
The 17-page report details the death toll of victims documented killed by the warring parties, particularly focusing on those victims killed under torture, and victims amongst medical personnel, detailing the most notable incidents.
The report also provides details of the most notable work carried out by SNHR concerning the issue of extrajudicial killing.
The total number of victims reaching 67 civilians, including 19 children and three women, seven of whom, including one child, were killed at the hands of Syrian regime forces, with the victims distributed to Daraa, Idlib, Damascus Suburbs, Homs, and Hama.
Meanwhile, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) killed five civilians, including three victims under torture, with the victims distributed to Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, and Raqqa provinces.
Also 53 civilians, including 19 children and two women, were documented killed at the hands of other parties in March.
The report adds that 18 civilians, including 12 children and one woman, were documented killed as a result of landmine explosions, bringing the death toll resulting from the explosion of landmines since the beginning of 2022, to 38 civilians, including 20 children and two women.
The report documents the deaths of 67 civilians, including 20 children and three women (adult female), killed at the hands of the parties to the conflict and the controlling forces in Syria in March 2022. This figure is broken down according to the perpetrators in each case, with seven of the civilian victims, including one child, killed at the hands of Syrian regime forces, and one woman killed at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
In addition, SNHR also documented the death of one civilian killed at the hands of ISIS, while five civilians were killed at the hands of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces personnel, and 53 civilians, including 19 children and two women, were killed at the hands of other parties.
As the report reveals, analysis of the data for this period shows that Daraa saw the largest death toll compared to other Syrian governorates, accounting for 40% of the total death toll documented in March, followed by Deir Ezzor with 21%, then Aleppo with 16%.
The report reveals that among the victims was one medical worker who was killed as a result of gunfire whose source SNHR has been unable to identify.
The report further reveals that the SNHR team documented the deaths of seven individuals due to torture in March 2022; four of these victims died at the hands of Syrian regime forces, and three at the hands of Syrian Democratic Forces.
As the report notes, the evidence collected by SNHR indicates that some of the attacks documented in the report were deliberately directed against civilians and civilian objects.
These attacks along with indiscriminate bombardment have resulted in the destruction of facilities and buildings. The report notes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the war crime of attacking civilians has been committed in many cases.
The Syrian revolution that turned into a bloody conflict has claimed 500,000 lives and has displaced 13,2 million people since it erupted in March 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-regime protests.
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