<\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n“The Syrian government is repeating the same actions and
\nresponses it undertook in 1982 during the Hama massacre. The government is
\ncollectively punishing Daraa and other cities that are protesting against
\nAssad’s regime.” said Radwan Ziadeh, Director of DCHRS.\n<\/p>\n
\nSecurity forces continue their attack on the city, snipers
\nhave been stationed on the rooftops of high buildings and are targeting any
\nmoving persons, and units composed of four-army forces have been using
\nanti-aircraft machine guns to target densely populated neighborhoods, such as
\nAl-Mahata and Daraa Al-Balad in the city of Daraa. “Every single house around
\nthe Omari Mosque has been targeted” said an eyewitness that DCHRS managed to
\ntalk with.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnother eyewitness in Daraa told DCHRS that army and security
\nofficers are preventing residents from leaving their homes or even from
\nremoving dead bodies from the streets. “Dead bodies remain in the streets for
\nmore than 24 hours and then disappear.”\n<\/p>\n
\nAuthorities strictly prevented the burial of any of the dead.
\n“We had three refrigerated trucks, that were used for shipping food in and out
\nof Syria, in which we kept 80 bodies per truck, after three days security
\nforces took the trucks and returned them empty,” he said.\n<\/p>\n
\nAccording to a very reliable source who works in the medical
\nfield in the Tishreen Military Hospital who spoke to DCHRS, on April 30
\nsecurity forces moved 182 civilian dead bodies from Daraa to the Tishreen
\nMilitary Hospital in Damascus. And on May 1, moved <\/span>62 civilian dead bodies from Daraa to the
\nsame hospital. A total of 244 dead bodies within two days of which several were
\nchildren. The same source told DCHRS that the Tishreen Military Hospital has
\nreceived 81 bodies of soldiers and army officers, most of them killed by a
\ngunshot bullet to the back It is strongly suspected that these soldiers have
\nbeen killed for their refusal to shoot civilians.\n<\/p>\n\nSecurity forces have arrested at least 700 people in the
\nlast ten days in Daraa. Armed security officers are storming every single house
\nin the city Daraa arresting all males between the ages of 18-45. It has been
\nreported that the detainees are being kept in the national football stadium.
\nSome of the detainees have already been sent to Damascus.\n<\/p>\n
\n“The international community should act immediately in order
\nto urge the Syrian authorities to put an end to these crimes against civilians.
\nBesieging cities and arresting and killing hundreds of civilians demands a
\nstronger reaction from the international community than what we have seen thus
\nfar” said Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH President.\n<\/p>\n
\nPress contact : Arthur Manet\/Karine Appy + 33 1 43 55 90 19
\n\/ + 33 1 43 55 14 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nDaraa : Ten days of massacres, The international community
\nmust act immediately<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n« Syrian security forces continue to perpetrate severe human
\nrights violations in the city of Daraa that amount to international crimes »,
\nwarned the Damascus center for human rights studies (DCHRS) and the
\nInternational Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}