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2015-04-30 06:33:53 UTC
AFP, Beirut
Saturday, 21 February 2015
Ten children were among at least 48 people killed in a Syrian
village earlier this week as regime forces executed the families
of five alleged rebels, 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.
The wives of the five alleged rebel fighters 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 Nusra Front.
The heavy fighting claimed the lives of 129 regime loyalists and
116 rebels, including a Nusra commander, according to an
Observatory toll.
Last Update: Saturday, 21 February 2015 KSA 17:47 - GMT 14:47
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-
east/2015/02/21/Syria-forces-execute-10-children-of-alleged-
rebels-monitor-.html
Saturday, 21 February 2015
Ten children were among at least 48 people killed in a Syrian
village earlier this week as regime forces executed the families
of five alleged rebels, 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.
The wives of the five alleged rebel fighters 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 Nusra Front.
The heavy fighting claimed the lives of 129 regime loyalists and
116 rebels, including a Nusra commander, according to an
Observatory toll.
Last Update: Saturday, 21 February 2015 KSA 17:47 - GMT 14:47
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-
east/2015/02/21/Syria-forces-execute-10-children-of-alleged-
rebels-monitor-.html