{"id":123928,"date":"2025-04-03T09:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=123928"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:24:36","slug":"syrian-coastline-violence-constitutes-war-crimes-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/123928\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian coastline violence constitutes war crimes \u2013 Amnesty International\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Amnesty International described on Thursday the recent violence along Syria\u2019s coastline as \u201cwar crimes,\u201d holding the Damascus authorities responsible for the bloodshed that unfolded in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2025\/04\/syria-coastal-massacres-of-alawite-civilians-must-be-investigated-as-war-crimes\/\">report<\/a>, the organization stated that pro-government militias killed more than 100 people in the coastal city of Baniyas on March 8 and 9, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to verified information obtained by Amnesty, at least 32 individuals were deliberately executed, with a particular focus on targeting members of the Alawite minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eyewitnesses reported that armed assailants questioned victims about their sectarian identity, specifically asking if they were Alawites, before issuing threats or carrying out killings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report further revealed that authorities forced families of the victims to bury their loved ones in mass graves without conducting religious rites or public funerals, violating both the rights of the deceased and their relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amnesty International Secretary General Agn\u00e8s Callamard condemned these executions, stating that they amount to \u201cwar crimes\u201d and called for those responsible for the brutal massacre to be held accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWithout justice, Syria risks falling back into a cycle of further atrocities and bloodshed,\u201d Callamard warned, emphasizing the need for \u201cindependent and effective investigations\u201d into these crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She urged measures to prevent human rights violators from holding positions that could enable further abuses and stressed the importance of upholding victims\u2019 rights to truth, justice, and compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent days, activists on social media circulated an image\u2014also shared by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)\u2014showing a child from Baniyas who was killed on the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC\u2019s verification team confirmed that the image is recent and had not been previously published during earlier conflicts in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the SOHR reported that 12 civilians, most of them Alawites, were killed on March 30 in central and western Syria by armed groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This attack follows weeks of escalating violence that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians\u2014most of them from the Alawite minority\u2014in western Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The surge in violence, described as the deadliest since the fall of the Assad regime in December, has forced over 21,000 people to flee to neighboring Lebanon, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By Khalaf Ma\u2019o<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Amnesty International described on Thursday the recent violence along Syria\u2019s coastline as \u201cwar crimes,\u201d holding the Damascus authorities responsible for the bloodshed that unfolded in the region. 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