issued Syrian Network for Human Rights Today, Thursday, an investigation confirms the Syrian regime’s responsibility for the massacre of the village of Qarqour in the countryside Mother-in-law Which claimed the lives of 6 children. The investigation indicated that Syrian-Russian alliance forces had killed at least 62 civilians since October 5 in northwestern Syria.
The network added in its investigation that 60% of the civilian victims were women and children, in the attacks launched by Syrian-Russian alliance forces on areas in the governorates of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama in northwestern Syria, amid a wave of escalation that began at the beginning of this October.
The investigation also documented two massacres committed by Syrian regime forces, and another massacre committed by Russian forces in northwestern Syria.
Qarqour village massacre
The investigation reported that Syrian regime forces stationed in the town of Jurin, west of Hama, carried out an artillery shell attack last Sunday on the northwestern outskirts of the village of Qarqur, hitting a tent, killing 6 children, and turning the bodies of some of them into pieces.
The civil defense and ambulance teams were unable to reach the site of the massacre, so the family transported the bodies of the children using motorcycles to a nearby village to bury them there.
The massacre coincided with a flight Russian aviation My reconnaissance in the airspace west of Hama.
The investigation recorded at least 65 incidents of attacks on vital civilian centers, committed by Syrian-Russian alliance forces in northwestern Syria since the beginning of this October, including 7 on camps for forced displaced persons.
The investigation documented an attack With cluster munitions At the hands of the Syrian regime forces, it targeted Idlib Governorate, resulting in the death of a civilian and the wounding of 8 other civilians.
At least 7 attacks by the Syrian regime were also recordedIncendiary weapons In civilian areas far from the front lines in northwestern Syria.
Violation of international law
The investigation confirmed that the Syrian and Russian forces violated several rules in… International humanitarian lawOn top of which is the failure to distinguish between civilians and combatants, and between civilian and military targets, and the bombing of hospitals, schools, civilian centers and neighborhoods. These violations amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights called on the international community to renew pressure on the Security Council with the aim of referring the Syrian file to… International Criminal CourtAnd strive to achieve justice and accountability in Syria through the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council.
