Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS)

SNHR | Syria | Violations Report| August 25, 2012

Documentation of the Syrian regime’s violations of human rights in various Syrian provinces on the date of 25/8/2012

*Deaths and injuries*

Da’il, Deraa: 

The Syrian army’s shelling, using rockets and heavy weapons, of the city of Da’il left many deaths injuries. Some of the victims are children: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzs-xNhs_lc

Douma, Rural Damascus: 

The Syrian army’s renewed shelling of Douma has killed and injured many. One of the dead is Mohammed Alabtah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzeIK_WUwhE

The mortar shells did not discriminate young from old which resulted in the death of this child, Bilal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_rE8Y-OYFM

Alghantu, Homs: 

The Syrian army’s random shelling, using heavy weapons and artillery, caused many deaths some of whom are children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq7XAVZ0xl8

Alrastan, Homs: 

The shelling of Alrastan did not stop, leaving many wounded, including children:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzSu_vRQBCU

Jisr Alshughur, Idlib: 

The makeshift hospitals of Jisr Alshughur were flooded with dead and injured victims as a result of the random shelling that the city is being subject to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xarksh6uRb0

Kafarzayna, Hama:

The shelling and siege of Kafarzayna is accompanied with a ferocious military campaign by the Syrian army. The makeshift hospitals were full of injured children and their families:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjCm3Ja4msc

 

*Violations and suffering*

Juwair, Homs:

The people of Juwair have been suffering from very bad medical conditions. The injured can only be treated using very modest equipment that are available to the doctors. It is noteworthy that many of the doctors that work in makeshift hospitals are constantly being tracked and chased by regime forces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCCJ403ipPQ

Qaminas, Idlib: 

Qaminas, like many other besieged cities, is suffering medically. Treatment is not available fin hospitals that have been either turned into military barracks or a place where the injured are executed. The doctors in the makeshift hospitals are treating the injured with very little or limited supplies. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01v8mU3COxs

Almadinah, Aleppo: 

The month-old random shelling of Almadinah has forced many families to flee with their children, only taking with them the clothes they are wearing. They left behind their homes and everything they own:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEAeOJQgyk

Buqrus, Dier Alzoor: 

Many fell dead due to the random shelling of Buqrus. This footage shows the suffering that the inured go through in the makeshift hospitals that are not equipped with the needed medical equipment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBwGEHBft8w

 

 

*Shelling and destruction*

Yabroud, Rural Damascus: 

MEG warplanes pounded the city of Yabroud causing huge exposions, rising smoke, and devastating destruction: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVv2AOhVzmA

Old Homs, Homs:

Many were killed and injured in the random shelling of Old Homs City that was carried out by the Syrian army’s heavy weapons: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSIr5-DECo

Alkhaldiya, Homs:

The shelling of Alkhaldiya has not stopped for over two months now. A huge number of buildings and homes were destroyed due to the ongoing shelling: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBL9iqGZSGA

Iblin, Idlib: 

The Syrian Army’s heavy weapons and warplanes shelled the city of Iblin causing destruction of homes and thick smoke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPNSsz5Gubg

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