Syrian Observatory: Syria Forces Execute 10 Children of Alleged Rebels
Ten children were among at least 48 people killed in a Syrian village earlier this week as regime forces executed six families of rebel fighters, a monitoring group said Saturday.
The killings took place in the village of Rityan, north of second city Aleppo, which regime forces entered on Tuesday during an offensive aimed at cutting rebel supply lines to the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based monitoring group said that villagers had discovered the bodies of those killed when they returned to their homes after the regime forces pulled back on Wednesday.
Five women and 13 rebel fighters from the six families were also among the dead.
"The troops and militiamen knew exactly where they lived thanks to the informers who accompanied them," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
"There was no resistance except in one house where a rebel opened fire at troops before being executed along with his family," he added.
Activist Mamun Abu Omar said some of the bodies of the dead had been mutilated.
The brief seizure of Rityan was part of an abortive offensive launched by the army this week to try to encircle the rebel-held east of Aleppo and relieve two besieged Shiite villages to its north.
By Friday all but one of the villages taken by government forces in the initial fighting had been recaptured by the rebels, who include fighters of Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.
The heavy fighting claimed the lives of 129 regime loyalists and 116 rebels, including an Al-Nusra commander, according to an Observatory toll.
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it sounds barbaric and cruel, but this is the only way to deal with the brutal qatari-turkish-wahabi islamists. those children would have grown into their parents anyhow. im not an assad supporter, just an islamist hater. im sorry, but we have to deal with these barbaric killers the same way they dealt with those innocent coptic christians who were beheaded... as well as their families.
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no matter how barbaric the rebels are it's a drop in the bucket compared to the butcher of Damascus, this monster mastered the art of deceiving and killing and kidnapping, you don't have to go far, remember the atrocities committed against the Christian communities in Lebanon and in my hometown of Ashrafieh in particular, my only wish is that someone gives him and his entire family a taste of their own medicine
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im not against that either, kill all the assad family as well.
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The whole family including his wife and children-[- mercilessly and he needs to watch it happen before his miserable life is snuffed out.
Brutal sectarian regime aided by a lethal criminal militia. Add them to the list of war criminals