Syrian Network for Human Rights & Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies Violation Report for Friday, 20 July, 2012

Casualties and wounded:
Damascus | Al-Mazzeh
Mortar shells were fired by the regime forces onto Al-Mazzeh in Damascus which resulted in many deaths including Badr Al-Dein Hajeij, whose body seems to be distorted as a result of the shelling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvpTWOE1jnY
Damascus Suburbs | Harran Al-‘Awameid
A total of eight people were killed today in Harran Al-‘Awameid in the Suburbs of Damascus under the hands of the regimes’ forces who used different techniques of torture including skinning and burning them alive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQMtLg7HhqY
Homs | Al-Rastan
Field hospitals in Al-Rastan were in a state of crisis after forces of the regime indiscriminately shelled the city, causing the death of many people and the wounding of many. The field hospital was packed full with casualties of all ages including children as can be seen in the following video (Graphic):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_lWvECCCl0
Idlib | Al-Mastouma
Four people have been killed in the village of Al-Mastouma as a result of the indiscriminate bombardment carried out by the regimes’ forces:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4VnWPdbYjw
Daraa | Tafas
A number of children in the city of Tafas have been killed as a result of the indiscriminate bombardment carried out by the regimes’ forces against the province of Daraa. The following video shows the large distortion in the corpses of the children as they died while the shelling hit their home (Very Graphic):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4_uifq7UZM

Assaults and Human Rights Violations:
Damascus | Khalid Bin Waleed
The regimes’ security forces opened heavy fire towards peaceful demonstrators at the famous Khalid Bin Waleed road in the heart of Damascus causing the death of at least five civilians. Demonstrators were unable to retrieve and aid them in time as security forces continued firing towards the area:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYqMjxr506c
Daraa | Al-Hirak
Security and military checkpoints deployed throughout the cities and villages of Syria have become a source of fear among the citizens, where they are indiscriminately arrested by them for no reason at all and then are subject to some of the most severe types of torture by the regimes’ security forces. Some of the detainees are released as a dead corpse, or they come out with a number of torture marks and begin describing their experience; just like the following victim who explains the types of methods used including whips, electricity and physical kicking and punching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkI6j3u5WoY

Bombardment and Destruction:
Damascus | Al-Qadam
The following video shows the state in which the homes of the unarmed civilians were left in after the shelling carried out by the regimes’ forces using rockets and heavy weapons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1ucfPDe-Q
Damascus Suburbs | Al-Sayyida Zainab
Forces of the regime used helicopters and heavy missiles in the shelling of Al-Sayyida Zainab in the Suburbs of Damascus which resulted in the huge destruction in the homes of the civilians as well as black smoke to rise in the skies of the region:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3RkplngBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B5gjuRhleI
Homs | Talbiseh
Black smoke arises in the city of Talbiseh along with the levels of destruction which keep on rising in the province of Homs as forces of the regime continue to bombard the area for the 40th consecutive day non-stop using all types of military weapons and equipment including warplanes, tanks, heavy artillery and weaponry; adding more misery to the lives of the remaining citizens in of the province:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWd0HNejuls
Aleppo | Bayanoun
The regime forces continued shelling the towns and villages in the suburbs of Aleppo including Bayanoun, causing black smoke to rise in the area:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsW-KvjcUU
Hama | Al-Ghab Plains
Entire homes have been razed to the ground in the village of Al-Hawwash in the Al-Ghab plains region as a result of the bombardment carried out by the forces of the regime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VjhwlQ-Rso