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Syrian regime bulldozes entire neighbourhoods, report says
Date
January 31, 2014 - 9:28AM
Caroline Alexander
A handout picture from Human Rights Watch that show a neighbourhood before it was bulldozed by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2012.
A handout picture from Human Rights Watch that show a neighbourhood before it was bulldozed by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2012. Photo: AFP
London: Syrian government forces using bulldozers and explosives razed thousands of homes in rebel areas of the country - an area equivalent to about 200 soccer fields, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
Many of the demolished buildings were apartment blocks several stories high, some with as many as eight levels, covering a total area of at least 145 hectares, the New York-based organisation said in a report today titled Razed to the Ground: Syria's Unlawful Neighborhood Demolitions. Satellite photos released by the organisation showed inhabited areas in Damascus and Hama reduced to rubble, some in the space of a month.
"In some areas, the entire neighbourhood has been flattened, it disappeared as if it never even existed," Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in an interview. The destruction is not a consequence of fighting, "We can tell from the satellite imagery that it is systematic and complete," he said..............
Date
January 31, 2014 - 9:28AM
Caroline Alexander
A handout picture from Human Rights Watch that show a neighbourhood before it was bulldozed by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2012.
A handout picture from Human Rights Watch that show a neighbourhood before it was bulldozed by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2012. Photo: AFP
London: Syrian government forces using bulldozers and explosives razed thousands of homes in rebel areas of the country - an area equivalent to about 200 soccer fields, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
Many of the demolished buildings were apartment blocks several stories high, some with as many as eight levels, covering a total area of at least 145 hectares, the New York-based organisation said in a report today titled Razed to the Ground: Syria's Unlawful Neighborhood Demolitions. Satellite photos released by the organisation showed inhabited areas in Damascus and Hama reduced to rubble, some in the space of a month.
"In some areas, the entire neighbourhood has been flattened, it disappeared as if it never even existed," Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in an interview. The destruction is not a consequence of fighting, "We can tell from the satellite imagery that it is systematic and complete," he said..............
