U.N. denounces mortar attacks on schools in the Syrian capital

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Source: Los Angeles Times

BEIRUT — The United Nations on Tuesday denounced as “barbaric” a series of recent mortar attacks on schools in Damascus, Syria's capital, that have left at least four students dead and dozens others injured.

“These barbaric acts must stop,” Maria Callvis, director for the Middle East and North Africa for the United Nations Children’s Fund, said in a statement. “All those with influence in Syria have a moral obligation to respect the sanctity of children’s lives and ensure that schools remain a place of safe refuge.”

Attacks Monday killed and injured schoolchildren in two mostly Christian neighborhoods, whose residents are generally regarded as pro-government. The mortar shells and home-made rockets being fired into the capital from rebel-held suburbs are not especially accurate, experts say.

Human rights groups have regularly condemned large-scale government bombardment of civilian districts under rebel control. The daily shelling of Damascus by rebels has not generated comparable levels of international censure. But the rising number of casualties among schoolchildren prompted UNICEF to voice its outrage.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-un-syria-mortar-attacks-schools-20131112,0,7114650.story

[idwiyo]

1. Doubt this will get much attention. :(

[mallard]

2. Re: you're right about that ...

... and since it doesn't compliment the dedicated aim to oust Assad - even at the cost of leaving Syria in tatters and prepetual civil war - well then, why should the public be made to think there's something wrong with this picture?

Interesting to note how the Christian community is affliated and left the mercy of western-backed rebels. What's really going on is pretty hard to justify, so our media don't report on it. This is still their post-9/11 'war-footing'. They've basically abandoned the fifth column or whatever you call it. It's a kinder, gentler tyranny ... fascism lite.

[Alamuti Lotus]

3. even formal condemnations of the "rebel" atrocities are worded with kid gloves... *nt