August 13, 2015

Syrian Government Forces perpetrate massacre

located:	Syria
editor:	Murat Suner

While the news sites keep being covered by the so-called Islamic State and related terror and anti-terror activities, the Syrian government forces continue to operate with terror and illegal barrel bombs against civilians - hardly covered by the news.

Now, again, a series of barrel bombs dropped by Syria's government has killed at least 75 people and wounded dozens others in Aleppo province, according to medical sources and a monitoring group reports Al Jazeera today.

The deaths occurred in two separate incidents on Saturday when helicopters dropped explosives-filled barrels, which are deemed illegal under international law.

One barrel bomb hit the rebel-held Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, killing at least 20 people, most of them from the same family, local activists have told Al Jazeera.

In the second attack, at least 55 people were killed after bombs hit a busy market in al-Bab city - about 40km northeast of Aleppo city, which is controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which documents violence through a network of activists on the ground, dubbed the al-Bab attack as a "massacre", adding that the number of dead likely would rise because many of the wounded were in critical condition.

Since months, according to a report by Amnesty International, sheer terror and unbearable suffering has forced many civilians in Aleppo to eke out an existence underground to escape the relentless aerial bombardment of opposition-held areas by government forces."

Source: Al Jazeera, Amnesty International

Image: Al Jazeera, Getty Images