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An Amnesty International report is putting great pressure on al-Assad rulers and Russian forces. They are said to have targeted schools and hospitals. Cluster munitions were also used here.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has denounced targeted attacks on schools and hospitals in Syria. Syrian and Russian forces had committed 18 such attacks in northwestern Syria in the first few weeks of this year alone, the organization said when it released a new report on attacks on civilian targets in the civil war country. Cluster munitions were also used.
Russia supports ruler Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war. According to the report, most of the 18 attacks were carried out in Idlib, West Aleppo and the Hama Governorate in January and February. Amnesty International expert in Syria in Germany Vanessa Ullrich spoke of war crimes.
For the report “” Nowhere is Safe for Us “: Illegal Attacks and Mass Displacement in Northwest Syria,” 74 people, including displaced people, teachers, doctors and employees of aid organizations, were interviewed. Amnesty said the testimony was supported by videos, photos, satellite images and communications intercepted by the Russian and Syrian Air Force.
Hospital bombings
“With the recent offensive in the last areas still in the hands of opposition groups in northwest Syria, the inhuman pattern of targeted attacks by the Assad government against civilians and civilian facilities such as schools and hospitals continues,” said Ullrich. .
Amnesty has reported for the first time that Russian forces have carried out direct air strikes at a hospital. A surviving doctor reportedly said an attack near Al Shami hospital in Idlib province on January 29, 2020 destroyed at least two nearby residential buildings. Eleven civilians, including a colleague, were killed and more than 30 wounded.
Amnesty concluded that the Russian forces were responsible for this illegal attack, based on the testimony of witnesses and observations of so-called airplane observers (airplane observers).
Russian-produced cluster munitions
There is also evidence that barrel bombs and ground ammunition fell at two schools on January 28 and February 25, 2020. In the report, a teacher described the death of a student in one of the attacks: I would burn my feet. ” .
The shells used were 9M27K cargo rockets with a caliber of 220 millimeters, which were manufactured in Russia and delivered to the Syrian army. According to the report, the cargo rockets contained cluster munitions that violated international law.
A million people running away
In view of the violence in Syria, a continuation of the deportation detention to Syria that is applicable in Germany is essential, Ulrich explained. The Bashar al-Assad regime deliberately terrorized the civilian population.
Between December and March, nearly a million people were displaced from northwest Syria, according to the UN. According to Amnesty, more than 80 percent of people are women and children. More than 380,000 people have died since the civil war began nine years ago. Millions more people were forced to flee.
