Recent Escalation of Tactic Threatens Civilians
Human Rights Watch
"(Kilis) – The Syrian government launched at least four ballistic
missiles that struck populated areas in the city of Aleppo and a town in Aleppo
governorate during the week of February 17, 2013. The attacks killed more than
141 people, including 71 children, and caused immense physical
destruction.
The extent of the damage from a single strike, the lack of
aircraft in the area at the time, and reports of ballistic missiles being
launched from a military base near Damascus overwhelmingly suggest that
government forces struck these areas with ballistic missiles. Human Rights Watch
visited the four attack sites, all in residential neighborhoods. Human Rights
Watch found no signs of any military targets in the vicinity of any of the four
sites, which would mean that the attacks were unlawful.
“I have visited many attack sites in Syria, but have never seen such
destruction,” said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch,
who visited the sites. “Just when you think things can’t get any worse, the
Syrian government finds ways to escalate its killing tactics.”
Human Rights Watch compiled a list of those killed
from cemetery burial records, interviews with relatives and neighbors, and
information from the Aleppo media center and the Violations Documentation
Center, a
network of local activists....."
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