INCREASING CASES OF CIVILIANS ARBITRARY EXECUTED BY SNIPERS AWAY FROM DEMONSTRATIONS

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INCREASING CASES OF CIVILIANS ARBITRARY EXECUTED BY SNIPERS AWAY FROM
DEMONSTRATIONS


There has been many reports about the raids that the security forces and
the Syrian army conducted in different neighborhood and towns in Syria
after Syrian people take the streets in demonstrations. During these raids,
there has been many reported incidents that men and women were sniped at in
the streets for no specific reasons.

On Thursday May, 31st, 2012 the security forces and the army raided the
city of Darayya. It is believed that the raid was triggered by the numerous
anti-government protests organized in the city the days before. During the
raid, at least10 persons were killed and 30 arrested and brought to unknown
location.

According to residents, many security men and many snipers wearing civil
clothes took position on the roofs of the buildings on May, 30th, 2012. On
the following day, at 8:30am Mrs Fadwa Adwi was targeted by a sniper in
front of her house near Abbass mosque, Daryya, Damascus suburbs in front of
her house while she was with her two children and her husband in their way
to her child's school to get his certificate. She was holding her son's
hand while her husband was carrying her four months old son and they were
waiting for the school bus.

She was sniped in her head for no reason. The eyewitnesses believed that
the air force security forces (which is the branch responsible about all
the security issues in Daryya area) are the one which is responsible about
the execution

When the victim Fadwa fell on the ground, her husband started screaming and
people gathered around them and she was taken to the closest hospital but
she was already dead. Her family was forced to burry Fadwa quickly and they
were asked by the Syrian authority to sign a statement which says that the
armed gangs are the one who killed Fadwa, yet her family refused to sign.


Recent reports indicate other cases of unarmed civilians targeted by
snipers for the only apparent reason that they live in a region where
anti-government protests have taken place.



On Monday June, 4th, 2012 Wafaa Alhamwi was targeted by a sniper in Mlaiha,
Damascus suburb while she was buying bread from the bakery. Wafaa was
displaced from Bab draib, Homs to Mlaiha.


On Tuesday June, 5th, 2012, Gosn Abdalkader was targeted by a sniper in
Douma, Damascus suburbs while she was in a taxi in her way to the hospital
to give birth since she is pregnant in her ninth month.


These cases indicate that arbitrary executions of many men and women by
snipers has become as a pattern around Syria while the security forces and
the Syrian army raid areas where the activists are holding demonstrations.
The United Nations should carry out urgent investigations on the arbitrary
executions by snipers of Syrian civilians even away from demonstrations.