{"id":1934,"date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Generation, Syria\u2019s Children on Universal Children\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nRead the statement here<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nViolations perpetrated against Syrian children have been taking place since the launch of the Syrian Revolution in March 2011. These violations are dreadful, but take on a special poignancy on this day, “Universal Children’s Day” (November 20, 2014). The Syrian uprising was initiated in response to the arrest of number of children, who had written slogans denouncing the Syrian regime on walls in the province Daraa, February, 2011. These children were arrested, interrogated, abused, and tortured by Daraa’s security forces. Children have thus suffered since day one of the Syrian disaster.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe violations perpetrated against the Syrian children continued and worsened, with Syrian children arrested, tortured, sexually abused, forced to testify under torture, in some cases killed. In addition Syrian children have been used as human shields, displaced internally and forced to flee abroad, have been deprived of education, denied access to health, and in many cases have been forced to join armed groups. Furthermore, Syrian children have been targeted indiscriminately by snipers, shelling, airstrikes, which have often hit residential buildings and neighborhoods. To date the death toll among Syrian children exceeds 11,145, according to the documentation and statistics prepared by the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS).\n<\/p>\n

\nSo far this year, the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies has documented 3,004 children who have been killed in Syria. The breakdown of victims for each month is as follows:\n<\/p>\n