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SYRIAN ARMY TROOPS RETAKE TWO SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF DAMASCUS
October 11, 2013 - 14:10 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Syrian army troops and Shi'ite militia fighters
loyal to President Bashar al-Assad retook two southern suburbs of
Damascus on Friday, Oct 11, killing at least 70 people, opposition
activists said, according to Reuters.
The militia, including fighters from the Lebanese Shi'ite movement
Hezbollah and Iraqi Shi'ites backed by Syrian army tanks, combed the
suburbs of al-Thiabiya and Husseiniya, a Palestinian refugee camp,
after overrunning them, the sources said.
Meanwhile, in a report published Friday, Human Rights Watch said that
Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and
abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages,
committing a war crime.
The Aug 4 attacks on unarmed civilians in more than a dozen villages
in the coastal province of Latakia were systematic and could even
amount to a crime against humanity, the HRW said in a 105-page report
based on a visit to the area a month later.
Witnesses said rebels went house to house, in some cases executing
entire families and in other cases killing men and taking women and
children hostages. The villagers belong to the minority Alawite sect,
an offshoot of Shiite Islam which forms the backbone of President
Bashar Assad's regime - and which Sunni Muslim extremists consider
heretics.
Lama Fakih of Human Rights Watch said the rebel abuses in Latakia
"certainly amount to war crimes," and may even rise to the level of
crimes against humanity.
October 11, 2013 - 14:10 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Syrian army troops and Shi'ite militia fighters
loyal to President Bashar al-Assad retook two southern suburbs of
Damascus on Friday, Oct 11, killing at least 70 people, opposition
activists said, according to Reuters.
The militia, including fighters from the Lebanese Shi'ite movement
Hezbollah and Iraqi Shi'ites backed by Syrian army tanks, combed the
suburbs of al-Thiabiya and Husseiniya, a Palestinian refugee camp,
after overrunning them, the sources said.
Meanwhile, in a report published Friday, Human Rights Watch said that
Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and
abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages,
committing a war crime.
The Aug 4 attacks on unarmed civilians in more than a dozen villages
in the coastal province of Latakia were systematic and could even
amount to a crime against humanity, the HRW said in a 105-page report
based on a visit to the area a month later.
Witnesses said rebels went house to house, in some cases executing
entire families and in other cases killing men and taking women and
children hostages. The villagers belong to the minority Alawite sect,
an offshoot of Shiite Islam which forms the backbone of President
Bashar Assad's regime - and which Sunni Muslim extremists consider
heretics.
Lama Fakih of Human Rights Watch said the rebel abuses in Latakia
"certainly amount to war crimes," and may even rise to the level of
crimes against humanity.