The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported that it documented the deaths of 30,228 children in Syria since March 2011, including 199 due to torture. It also documented at least 5,263 children who are still under arbitrary arrest or enforced disappearance.
On the occasion of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, the Network stressed that the Assad regime practiced the worst forms of aggression against children in Syria, and was not deterred by Syria’s ratification of the 1993 Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The rights group indicated that the Assad regime has killed at least 23,045 children since March 2011, while Russian forces have killed 2,055 more.
The Network also documented the killing of 958 children at the hands of ISIS, 76 children at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, 269 children at the hands of the PYD militia, and 935 children at the hands of the international anti-ISIS coalition forces.
The Network indicated that there are at least 5,263 children still under arrest or forcibly disappeared in Syria, including 3,698 at the hands of regime forces, 319 at the hands of ISIS, 47 at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, and 834 at the hands of the PYD militia.
The Network also reported that at least 199 children have died due to torture since March 2011, including 190 at the hands of regime forces, one at the hands of ISIS, and two each at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the PYD militia.
On the occasion of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC) on Tuesday stressed the right of Syrian children, as well as all children everywhere in the world, to live in safety and peace.
The SOC stated in a press release that tens of thousands of children have been killed as a result of attacks launched by the Assad regime over a period of thirteen years, during which Syrian children experienced severe suffering as a result of killing, arrest, displacement, and besiegement, in addition to being deprived of their basic rights to life, education, health, food, and shelter.
The SOC blamed the continuation of the tragedy for the Syrian people, and children in particular, on the weak humanitarian response and the failure to meet the necessary needs to mitigate the repercussions of more than a decade of multiple humanitarian crises, which have been exacerbated by the Assad regime’s obstruction of the political process and its rejection of a political solution.
(Source: SOC’s Media Department)
