A Syrian Coalition Report Details Regime Violations since Early 2011

On Human Rights Day, the Syrian Coalition’s Media Office released a report detailing the systematic violations that has been committed by regime forces since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution in March 2011. The report also sheds light on the situation in Syrian before the popular uprising, when emergency and martial laws almost were imposed to control all aspects of life. The report says that “a fourth Human Rights Day passes and the bloodbath is still ceaseless in Syria where civilians are paying the dearest prices of all. From March 2011 until March 2012, the Syrian regime was majorly the only crime perpetrator in Syria before the beginning of the armed conflict. 98% of the victims were civilians who were killed by regime forces. In November 2011, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic openly accused the Syrian government of committing crimes against humanity. On 14 September, 2012, the Security Council resolution 2042 was adopted to commence the implementation of Annan’s six-point plan for Syria, but since then, nothing has changed.” The Syrian regime aggrievedly escalated its attacks by using more deadly weapons including machine guns, tanks, missiles, helicopters, airplanes, Scud missiles, cluster munition, and chemical weapons. The only response on the international community’s part was more reports by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic. With the end of April 2014, the total number of victim exceeded 192,000 victims according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Those numbers did not include the causalities among the Syrian armed forces, mercenaries (Shabiha), National Defense Militias, or ISIS.