US-led coalition commits 172 massacres in Syria

The report documents 172 massacres perpetrated by US-led coalition forces, and at least 172 attacks on vital civilian facilities, including 25 attacks on schools, 16 attacks on medical facilities, and four attacks on markets since the start of their military intervention in Syria until March 2019.

Thousands of civilians were killed while over a half million others were displaced in Syria since September 2014 when the US-led coalition forces launched a counter-terrorism campaign, the report said.

The report documents the deaths of 3,035 civilians, including 924 children and 656 women at the hands of coalition forces since the start of their military intervention in Syria until March 2019.

It also reveals that at least 560,000 inhabitants have been forcibly displaced by coalition forces’ attacks.

The report further notes that the coalition forces have acknowledged only 119 attacks which resulted in civilian deaths, including 31 attacks that resulted in massacres.

 The report stresses that the incidents of indiscriminate and disproportionate bombardment carried out by international coalition forces constitute explicit violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations of the rules of customary humanitarian law amounting to war crimes.