Syrian Coalition Submits a Report to the United Nations about Assad Crimes

The delegation of the Syrian Coalition submitted a report today to the United Nations about the Assad regime’s violations of human rights. The report confirms that the Assad regime has killed more than 1805 people in Syria, including 834 people in Aleppo alone since the start of the negotiations at Geneva II, using more than 130 barrel bombs. The report points to several reports issued by international human rights organizations. Human Rights watch documented in a 38-page report, which was published with the beginning of the first round of negotiations, about the Assad regime’s deliberate demolition of thousands of residential buildings in Damascus and Hama in 2012 and 2013. The report uses satellite images, eyewitness accounts, and evidence derived from video clips and photographs. It stresses these acts represent violation of the laws of war because they were not serving any military purpose, as they were intended to punish the civilian population on purpose, and caused significant damage to civilians .Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Independent Committee on Syrian documented the regime’s use of cluster bombs, ballistic missiles and barrel bombs against the civilian population, in addition to slaughter, torture and extrajudicial executions and chemical weapons. The Independent International Committee which was formed in August 2011 to investigate violations of international humanitarian law in Syria said in its reports issued on November 28, 2011, and February 22, 2012 that crimes against humanity in Syria have been committed with the knowledge and consent of the authorities at the highest levels in the state. The international human rights organizations and documented the number of methods of torture used in prisons of the Assad regime that led to the death of thousands of civilians. The report submitted by the Syrian Coalition cited a statement issued by ESCWA in Beirut on January 21, 2014. It is estimated that 6,000 people die each month, and that Syria loses ten million Syrian pounds in every minute, 300 people are displaced every hour, 9,000 people become under the lower poverty line, 2,500 people lose their ability to provide for themselves every day. 10,000 people loses their jobs every week. (Source: Syrian Coalition)