{"id":280,"date":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","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=280","title":{"rendered":"Killing of civilians and humanitarian crisis on Syrian Turkish border"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nInternational
\nFederation for Human Rights (FIDH)<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nDamascus Center for
\nHuman Rights Studies (DCHRS)<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nJoint press release<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nKilling of
\ncivilians and humanitarian crisis on Syrian Turkish border<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.fidh.org\/Killing-of-civilians-and-humanitarian-crisis-on<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nJune 17, 2011 – The
\nInternational Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Damascus Center for
\nHuman Rights Studies (DCHRS) are deeply concerned about the violent crackdown
\non inhabitants around Syrian Turkish border. 
\n<\/span>According to local sources, in the last few days, more than 130 persons
\ndied, 100 were wounded and over 2000 were arbitrarily arrested in the village
\nof Jisr al-Shoghour and around the city of Idleb. The humanitarian situation is
\ndeteriorating, as Syrian authorities further isolate the population by
\nregularly interrupting communications networks. Electricity and water supplies
\nhave been interrupted in some cities around Idleb, among other towns in Syria.
\nMore than 8000 Syrians have already fled Syria to find refuge in Turkey, and<\/p>\n

many more are waiting on the Turkish border to escape the violent repression
\nand collective punishment inflicted by the Syrian authorities.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nOn June 3, 2011,
\nthe city of Jisr al-Shoghour answered the call issued by inhabitants of Hama to
\ndemonstrate, and thousands of Syrians took to the streets. Over 150 military
\ntanks and 1000 soldiers positioned themselves around the city. Fifteen
\nhelicopters accompanied the ground troops to execute a military operation.
\nFollowing the raid, dozens of demonstrators were allegedly killed and some
\nhouses were demolished.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nAccording to the
\ninformation received, armed gangs in plain clothes and the Syrian forces,
\nnamely two brigades of the army (brigade 17 and brigade 4, under the control of
\nMaher al-Assad), fired live ammunition on demonstrators.  <\/span>and two officers and some soldiers refused to
\nfollow these orders and a number of them left the army to join civilians. The
\n“moukhabarat” (secret police) allegedly opened fire on 30 of these soldiers.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nBetween June 3 and
\nJune 6, at least 70 civilians died in the governorate of Idleb, according to
\nDCHRS, and between June 6 and June 10, 60 peaceful protesters died in Der
\nal-Zour, Maaret al-Noaman and Jisr al-Shoghour, according to eyewitnesses. It
\nwas also reported by local sources that about 2000 individuals are currently
\narbitrarily detained by Syrian forces in the region. The repression continues
\nto this day as the Syrian army has furthermore announced a larger and harsher
\nmilitary operation in the near future. The army justified this military
\noperation by asserting the presence of armed groups across the region who
\nsupposedly try to take control over the province.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Syrian army
\ncurrently besieges at least four villages around the Turkish border (Jisr
\nal-Shoghour, Marat al-Nooman, Der al-Zour, and Jabel al-zawiya) and a few other
\ntowns across Syria. For more than ten days, some of these towns have had no
\naccess to water, electricity, nor medical supplies. Demonstrators are subjected
\nto constant acts of intimidation and threats, and wounded civilians are
\ndissuaded from requiring medical care in hospitals.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn some cases the
\nSyrian authorities refused humanitarian assistance to the wounded (including
\nmany children), and to other civilians in need of medical treatment. According
\nto the information received, hospitals around Idleb have notably witnessed
\nabductions of some of the wounded and some patients have been killed by gunshot
\nby the Syrian authorities while in their hospital bed.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nFIDH recalls that
\nwhile the lives of thousands of civilians are endangered by this situation, the
\nSyrian authorities continue to refuse territorial access to independent human
\nrights NGOs as well as UN bodies and foreign journalists. This position seems
\nto merely aim at masking the grave human rights violations committed in Syria
\ntoday.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn light of the
\nabusive use of force and of the intensified crackdown by the Syrian authorities
\nsince March 15, FIDH and DCHRS consider that international crimes are being
\nperpetrated by the Syrian authorities. These crimes fall under the jurisdiction
\nof the International Criminal Court (ICC). FIDH and DCHRS reiterate their call
\nto the international community, in particular to the UN Security Council and
\nthe Arab League, to take immediate action to urge the Syrian authorities to put
\nan end to the crimes committed against civilians, and to undertake all efforts
\nto investigate and prosecute those responsible for these crimes.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nPress contacts:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nArthur Manet : +33
\n1 43 55 90 19 \/ +33 6 72 28 42 94<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nKarine Appy: +33 1
\n43 55 14 12 \/ +33 6 48 05 91 57<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nTwitter: @fidh_ngo<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nKilling of
\ncivilians and humanitarian crisis on Syrian Turkish border<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.fidh.org\/Killing-of-civilians-and-humanitarian-crisis-on<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nJune 17, 2011 – The
\nInternational Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Damascus Center for
\nHuman Rights Studies (DCHRS) are deeply concerned about the violent crackdown
\non inhabitants around Syrian Turkish border. 
\n<\/span>According to local sources, in the last few days, more than 130 persons
\ndied, 100 were wounded and over 2000 were arbitrarily arrested in the village
\nof Jisr al-Shoghour and around the city of Idleb.<\/span><\/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-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}