Reports of Aleppo civilians 'shot on the spot' by pro-regime forces UN

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

There are reports that pro-Syrian regime forces have been entering homes in the last remaining rebel strongholds in eastern Aleppo and killing civilians “on the spot”, the UN has said.

Rupert Colville, a UN human rights spokesman, said the reports indicated that 82 civilians had been killed across four different neighbourhoods. He described what looked like a “complete meltdown of humanity” in the city.

Unverified reports of extrajudicial killings by forces loyal to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, as well as mass detentions and arrests, have surfaced in recent days. In one image circulated by a pro-government parliamentarian, dozens of Syrian men and boys from east Aleppo stand in a detention camp in front of Syrian army soldiers.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were corpses abandoned in the streets with residents too terrified by the shelling to bury them. “Real massacres” were taking place in the city, the war monitor said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/13/red-cross-urgent-plea-to-save-civilians-aleppo-syria

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We have until Jan 20th for the USA to object to things like this. After that, Putin's Puppet will be fine with things like this. After all, Assad is a strongman.

[DetlefK]

1. Terrorists. Everybody fighting Assad is automatically a terrorist.

That's the propaganda-war fought inside Syria. Every single enemy of Assad must be delegitimized. That's why Assad and Russia are ROYALLY PISSED about the humanitarian efforts of the White Helmets: Because it ruins the narrative that Assad is the only hope for peace and order.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. They outlawed giving medical help to the rebels

which Geneva convention explicitly says must be given.