The Assad regime used barrel bombs 81,916 times

The Syrian Human Rights Community (SNHR) shared the stability sheet of the massacres of the bloody Assad regime.

Documenting the rights violations in opposition to civilians in Syria, SNHR printed its report on the barrel bomb assaults carried out by the Assad regime between July 2012 and April 2021.

NUMBER OF DEATH IN BARREL BOMB ATTACKS

Accordingly, the regime forces used barrel bombs 81,916 times of their assaults on civilian settlements below the management of the opposition, and 11,087 civilians, together with 1821 youngsters and 1780 girls, misplaced their lives in these assaults.

Regime forces have been 2 thousand 314 in 2012, 14 thousand 976 in 2013, 19 thousand 654 in 2014, 17 thousand 318 in 2015, 12 thousand 958 in 2016, 6 thousand 243 in 2017, 3 thousand 601 in 2018. whereas utilizing barrel bombs 4 thousand 378 times in 2019 and 474 times in 2020; It has not but been recorded that he utilized to this weapon in 2021.

93 ATTACKS WITH TOXIC GAS

Since 2012, the regime has carried out 93 chemical assaults containing poison fuel with barrel bombs dropped by helicopters.

Whereas the provinces most focused by barrel bombs have been Damascus, Aleppo, Dera and Idlib, Aleppo suffered essentially the most lack of life on this approach.

In Syria, well being facilities have been focused 104 times, colleges 188 times, mosques 205 times and market locations 57 times with barrel bombs.

Emphasizing that the Assad regime used barrel bombs as a weapon to displace civilians, it was acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced on account of the assaults of the regime and its supporters.

REGIME AUTHORITIES COMMITTED WAR CRIMES USING BARREL BOMB

The report additionally shared info on battle legal regime officers held liable for using barrel bombs. The names and duties of the distinguished regime officers within the report are listed as follows:

“Assad, the regime chief and the Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, Protection Minister Ali Abdullah Eyyub, Cemil Hasan, Chief of Air Intelligence, Gassan Ismail, Deputy Chief of Air Intelligence, Kifah Milhim, Head of Army Intelligence, Mohammed Mahla, Former Head of Army Intelligence, Air Drive Commander Hassan Ali, Former Air Drive Commander Ahmed Belul Muhammed Bilal, Chief of Weapons Growth within the Air Drive, Gassan Bilal, Head of the Safety Workplace of the 4th Corps, Ali Vannus, one of many organizers of using chemical weapons in airstrikes, Commander Bedi Al-Mualle at Hmeimim Air Base, Deir ez-Zor Army Airport Commander Muhammed Yusuf Al-Hasuri, Gassan Abbas, coordinator between the analysis middle and safety models, Yasin Ahmed Dahi, Head of the Air Intelligence Mezze Workplace.”

BARREL BOMBS ARE LOW COST, HIGH EFFECT

The regime prefers barrel bombs due to their low value (about $50) however due to their devastating impact.

The regime, which principally targets civilian areas with these bombs, goals to trigger the best lack of life and nice destruction.

In response to the quantity of explosives stuffed in, the bombs trigger destruction in an space of ​​50-200 meters. Barrel bombs, that are outlined as “free fall” in army terminology, drive civilians emigrate with the harm they trigger to settlements.