Syrian regime massacres ruthlessly 100 civilians in Damascus market place

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The death toll from a Syrian government air strike on a market in Douma northeast of Damascus neared 100, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday.
The toll in a deadly series of Syrian government air raids on a rebel-held town outside Damascus rose to 96 people early Monday morning, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime warplanes on Sunday had conducted at least 10 airstrikes on Douma, most of them hitting a popular marketplace.

"The toll documented by the Observatory has risen to 96 people, including at least two women and four children," the Britain-based monitoring group said early Monday.

It said another 240 people were wounded in the strikes, some of whom were in critical condition.

The Local Coordination Committees, a grassroots network of anti-regime activists, said overnight that at least 105 people had been killed in Douma, which lies in the opposition bastion of Eastern Ghouta.

The area is the regular target of government airstrikes and has been under siege for nearly two years, with regime forces tightening the blockade since the start of 2015.

But Sunday's raids were one of the bloodiest regime attacks in the country's four-year war.

An AFP photographer in Douma described the attack as the worst he had covered in the town.

In one makeshift clinic, whole sections of floor were covered with rows of the dead, as volunteers worked to wrap each victim in a white shroud.

The deaths came as the UN's new humanitarian chief, Stephen O'Brien, visited Syria for the first time since his appointment in May.

O'Brien met Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and expressed a willingness to work with the government to alleviate humanitarian suffering, state media said.
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UN: Douma attack 'may amount to a war crime'


18 August 2015 17:20 (Last updated 18 August 2015 17:27)
At least 111 civilians have reportedly been killed and at least 200 others injured in attack on marketplace in Syria, UN says

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The Syrian regime's airstrike on Sunday on a marketplace in Douma, northeast of Damascus, which caused at least 111 civilian deaths, "may amount to a war crime", the U.N. said on Tuesday.

"On Sunday, there were two rounds of attacks: initial airstrikes were followed shortly afterwards by surface-to-surface missiles which hit people who had rushed to the scene to help," Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a press conference in Geneva.

Indicating that at least 111 civilians had been killed and at least 200 others injured, many of whom are in a serious condition, Colville added: "The death toll is likely to rise, particularly since those injured are being treated in field hospitals which are sorely inadequate, given that the two-year siege of Douma has led to a serious shortage of medical supplies."

A war crime

Noting that any intentional direct attack against civilians as well as the use of indiscriminate weapons in densely populated areas are serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, Colville said Sunday's attack on Douma "may amount to a war crime for which individuals can be held criminally responsible".

"We have repeatedly urged the Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court, given that calls for accountability and justice in Syria have gone unheeded for four years now," Colville said.

The Syria conflict began in early 2011 when the regime of President Bashar al-Assad responded with ferocity to popular protests that erupted as part of the Arab Spring uprisings.

The ensuing civil war, now in its fifth year, has resulted in the deaths of at least 250,000 people and made the country the world's single-largest source of refugees and displaced people, according to the U.N.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/headline/576...to-a-war-crime