Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS)

Infants among dead in Syrian massacre

CNN Report, August 27th, 2012, 06:55 PM ET
There have already been several massacres in Syria this year, but the latest mass killing appears to be on a whole new scale. This time it’s in the Damascus suburb of Daraya – a mostly poor and largely Sunni area, with a population of about 150,000.

SNHR| Syria| Casualties Report| August 27, 2012

The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented on Monday 27/8/2012 the death of 255 people, including 30 children and 10 women, 42 of whom were killed in Aljizah, Rural Damascus. There was also a massacre in Deraa where 11 people were killed including 7 children and three women and another massacre in Daraya that caused 39 deaths.

SNHR| Syria| Casualties Report| August 25, 2012

The Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented the death of 362 people, including 14 woman, 13 children, and one death due to torture. Most casualties are in Damascus and its rural areas as 219 of the deaths were documented in Daraya. 122 of those were killed in the Mosque’s Massacre.