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Following the fall of the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad, reports of violations against children in Syria appear to have increased significantly.
Children were greatly affected by the war all over the country. And while there are no solid data on the situation before the fall of the regime, the security situation in areas controlled by Islamists rebels, which lacked any real sense of law and order, was undoubtedly worse. Children there were way more vulnerable to all sorts of crimes.
When the rebels took over the country following a lighting offensive led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, last December, instead of adapting the policing system that was in place before, which was not perfect but functioning, they began an attempt to establish their own system based on their not very successful experience.
Now, the level of security in all the areas controlled by the new Islamist-led interim government has declined to the level that was present in rebel-held areas a year ago.
Just between August 8 and 9, four girls under the age of 10 fell victims for gruesome crimes. Not only no one was held accountable, but security forces were accused of covering up or even taking part in some of these crimes.
A girl in the town of Haranabush in the northern Idlib countryside was severely wounded by a stray bullet, apparently fired by some gunman who was celebrating.
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Another girl, Israa Atallah al-Awad al-Karta, faced an even sadder fate in the town of Mahkan in the southern Deir Ezzor countryside.
The girl was reportedly abducted, tortured to the point where she lost both of her eyes, then burned to death. The girl’s disfigured body was recovered from a sewage hole. Some of the locals speculated that the criminal was a sadistic psychopath, while others speculated that he was likely a religious fanatic practicing some sort of blood magic.
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A third girl, only eight-years-old, was found dead in the al-Kwsa refugee camp near the town of Jarablus in the northern Aleppo countryside.
Locals who saw the body said that the girl was clearly sexually assaulted then strangled to death. Still, a police officer, in cooperation with a local doctor, contributed her death to a snake bite.
Also in the northern Aleppo countryside, another girl was shot dead close to the Syrian side of the Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey. The circumstances of her death suggest that she was likely shot by Syrian border guards, as they are the only ones with weapons there.
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In addition to these crimes, the abduction of two girls, one 17 and another 19 years-old, was reported close to the city of al-Bab in the eastern Aleppo countryside on August 9.
On August 10, the dead body of a boy, reportedly in his early teenage years, was found in a ballistic bag dubbed on the side of the road near the town of Demsarkho, right to the north of the coastal city of Latakia.
These cases are just an example of the current security situation in Syria. In none of these cases, political or sectarian motives played a role. These crimes appear to be simply the work of psychopaths who are taking advantage of the accountability-free situation created by the government.
For the last seven months or so, the government has been promising to reform its security forces and legal system. However, things appear to be only getting worse. With the complete refusal to reinstall former security personnel, who clearly were more effective when it comes to fighting crimes, the situation is not likely to get any better.
Taking into account sectarian killings and ethnic tensions, it can be said that today Syria is the world’s largest haven for radicals and criminals. What is being reported, especially when it comes to violations against children, is likely just a fraction of the dimmer reality.
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islamist al-jolani must step down.
why? he’s just doing his job as a joo proxy.
jews need to back the fuck off
chat gpt 5 is shit like you zionists
more little yellow houses like in srebrenica and kharkiv for the little ones in damascus!… along with the diamonds of course… and what could have been had russia stayed the course with china’s “unwavering military support” 12 years ago when they were rolling back aleppo with hezbollah?… by the way… where is the prc’s quid pro quo support everywhere else for it’s most strategically important energy producer -these days???
management of savagery. five parts captagon and one part bathsalts.
and just in case anyone had any doubts for the rest of the levant. from a **** ****ing psychopath statesman who the p0tu$ mango mussolini mutually share the same hobbies where children and blackmail are concerned – “graham to israel: ‘enough already, destroy hamas’ – just as the us did to germany & japan”… word of advice for anyone visiting the u.$. avoid south carolina with the biggest reason for boycotting being this u.$. senator…
he is doing the same thing as his masters the zionist bast*rds in gaza. jewlani is zionist dog agent. may have the worst death ever him and is followers that love him!
all the commanders and soldiers of the saa who abandoned their duty in december last year carry the blame for these massacres and child torture… had they defended their country, these massacres wouldn’t be happening. syria is a hell on earth, ruled over by hordes of zionist and erdoganist demons.
victim blaming. put the blame where it lies – the jooz, goy whores, arab quislings, their thieving lackeys the turds, the scum of the earth recruited by the above from 100 countries, with a licence to murder, rob, rape and loot.
they are spreading this sort if a “islam” all over, or at least they are trying. who? take a wild guess.
no child is safe in today’s world . we are all palestinians to the war cult
no one is safe against the zionist jew. haven’t you learned anything?
this genocidal state needs to be dismembered.
i hope israel seizes damascus and the gas fields, leaving hts without a capital and gas.
free masons (controlled by uk) have returned to syria after a 40 years prohibition
there is no longer a solution, if anyone wants all this unnecessary violence in syria to stop, they must dismember it so that it no longer exists.
it’s over, come to terms with it, everyone. it’s like it was in 1990 in yugoslavia, when everyone knew it was coming, but no one knew how long the war would last. but it will last until the country was torn apart. remember, as long as syria exists, there will be war in it. the sooner it falls apart, the less deaths and destruction there will be.
the sooner it falls apart, the less death and destruction there will be. after 1990, yugoslavia was over; everyone, even us across the border in italy, knew it was the end. i really don’t know who is mocking the syrians now and convincing them that this isn’t the end and that syria will continue to exist. it won’t. because it can’t. the sooner they come to an agreement on the dissolution and succession of states, the better it will be for them and everyone else.
these psychopathic criminals deserve to have israeli settlers take over their gas fields and build their kibbutzs there.