Paris – A Statement Issued by the Syrian Network for Human Rights:
 
On February 23, the Syrian regime-controlled Aleppo city Council issued a circular requesting that the families of victims buried in the park located next to the Salah al Din Mosque in the city’s Salah al Din neighborhood come to the cemetery on March 2 to transfer their loved ones’ remains to the modern Islamic cemetery or to their families’ chosen cemeteries. If the families fail to do so, the statement warned, the council will exhume their loved ones’ bodies and transfer them without their permission.
 
Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that this park is one of many parks in the city which residents were forced to use as cemeteries to bury their loved ones, whether civilians or fighters, as well as neighbors or other residents, who were killed by the intensive indiscriminate carpet-bombing by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally of those neighborhoods of Aleppo city that had been liberated from the control of the Syrian regime, with the burial of these victims in these cemeteries taking place over a traumatic period of many months, until the Syrian regime, backed by its Russian and Iranian allies, regained full control of Aleppo city at the end of 2016.
 

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We, a group of Syrian civil society organizations, condemn the injudicious shooting committed by the Turkish border police, and as confirmed by witnesses, which caused the death of seven Syrian civilians, including a man, a woman and four children all from the same family on Sunday, June 19. In addition to the death of seven civilians, five additional persons were injured, including two women and three kids. These civilians were shot down by Turkish Border police during their attempt to cross borders from Syria to Turkey on Sunday morning near the Syrian village of Kherbeh al-Jawz.

We deplore the egregious action that was taken against Syrian civilians who were clearly crossing borders to look for shelter and escaping the continuous shelling and bombardment raining down on Syria. We cannot consider this incident as a mere isolated accident or an inconsequential individual action. We believe that a wide range of other options were available to the Turkish border police other than the lethal action that was taken. We call on the Turkish authorities to initiate an investigation into this incident, and to hold the perpetrators accountable. We urge the Turkish authorities to hold a public briefing about the event and to offer compensation to the victims.

We condemn this crime and ask that the perpetrators be brought to justice. We understand and recognize the need of the Turkish State to protect its national security, especially after several recent terrorist attacks which have rocked several Turkish cities, and which we also strongly condemned. However, this should not lend itself to the irresponsible and arbitrary use of lethal force by Turkish border police on Syrian civilians, that are themselves trying to escape violent conflict. Similar incidents have killed a number of Syrian civilians seeking safe haven inside Turkey on more than one occasion. We urge the Turkish government to work with the Turkish border police to find safe ways to patrol the borders and allow a secure and safe passage for Syrian civilians across the border, a right guaranteed by international law.

In the same stride, we believe what happened is directly related to the nefarious deal that was reached between the European Union and Turkey, which includes the systematic return of refugees from European territories to Turkey. This deal confounds the dangerous and perilous journeys that Syrian refugees are already facing in their plight to escape constant shelling and daily bombardment in hope of reaching safe haven. This treatment of the world’s most vulnerable populations is not only deplorable, but also incompatible with the principles of human rights and values that inspired the formation of the European Union. We hold the State of Turkey responsible for this as the main party to this agreement.

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The Syrian Network for Human Rights has documented the death of 69 Syrian Christians form the beginning of the Syrian Revolution until 24-12-2012 including 3 children and 7 women. All the victims were civilians and were killed at the hands of the Syrian army and security forces affiliated to the Syrian government.
The following link includes a full documentation of the names, dates, photographs and videos of the victims and their distribution on Syrian governorates as documented by SNHR:
//syrianhr.org/Upload/savefiles/CR.pdf

The main violations against Christians during the Revolution:
• Army forces shelled churches and predominantly-Christian areas:
A Meg fighter jet bombarded the Assyrian Christian village of Tal Nasri on 14 November 2012. A young man (Ninos Moneer) was killed in the bombardment and many others were injured. In addition, the bombardment caused much material damage to houses and worship places in this village 45 km off the center of Hassakeh governorate.

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