The Syrian Coalition issued a report that documents 20 massacres committed by the Assad regime using knives and sharp tools. The report pointed out that the 2885 civilians were victims of these massacres, including more than 200 children and 120 women, and that the perpetrators didn’t spare the old, the young, women or babies. The report added that “the victims of the 20 massacres carried out by the Assad regime were slaughtered with knives or burned to death, and that a variety of weapons and ways of killing were used in carrying out crimes, including the sword, the knife, the cleaver, burning to death and summary executions. The massacres goes beyond mere human rights violations to systematic and organized genocide.” The report also cited the massacres as follows: Six in Homs, four in Hama, three in Damascus, two in Baniyas and one in each of Aleppo, Dara’a, Idlib and Deir Ezzor. The report also said that the Assad regime “formed death squads in early days of the Revolution, specialized in the implementation of bloody massacres with knives. These squads were composed of forces of the Republican Guard, elements of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Shabiha and the terrorist militias of Hezbollah. They were later joined by the Iraqi militias of Abu al Fadl al Abbas and others. (Source: Syrian Coalition)
