{"id":17424,"date":"2013-04-11T01:38:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/?p=17424"},"modified":"2013-04-14T07:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T06:03:05","slug":"syria-aerial-attacks-strike-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/syria-aerial-attacks-strike-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Aerial Attacks Strike Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109890626105088261487\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-YSImZafvpdM\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAABUg\/ccpIu8nbcXc\/s32-c-k-no\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"32px\" height=\"32px\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+UNICEFUSA\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\"> UNICEF USA<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Time is running out to protect a generation of children caught up in <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Syria\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#Syria<\/span><\/a> &#8217;s brutal war. Without further funding, refugee children will face critical water shortages, lose health services, and fall further behind in their educations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Unicef-USA.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-17424];player=img;\" title=\"Unicef USA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17446\" title=\"Unicef USA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Unicef-USA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Unicef-USA.jpg 497w, http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Unicef-USA-490x268.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">Donate to help UNICEF meet the urgent needs of these children. Believe in ZERO suffering children: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.unicefusa.org\/site\/Donation2?df_id=12460&amp;12460.donation=form1&amp;JServSessionIdr004=emvfginb91.app240a&amp;utm_source=plus.google.com&amp;utm_medium=image-description&amp;utm_content=2013-04-13_13-30&amp;utm_campaign=unicefusa\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/uncf.us\/ZV8Z8Z<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrw\" target=\"_blank\" data-user-id=\"14700316\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Human Rights Watch<\/strong>\u00a0\u200f<s>@<\/s><strong>hrw<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Syria: Aerial Attacks Strike Civilians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2013\/04\/10\/syria-aerial-attacks-strike-civilians\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Z9RD5a <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AzmatZahra\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Azmat Khan \u200f@AzmatZahra<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Watch &#8222;The Bombing of al-Bara,&#8220; an immersive digital film about the aftermath of Syrian govt air strikes on civilians<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/syria-undercover\/#b\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #ffff00;\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/foreign-affairs-defense\/syria-behind-the-lines\/the-bombing-of-al-bara\/ \u2026<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Aleppo) \u2013 The Syrian Air Force has repeatedly carried out indiscriminate, and in some cases deliberate, air strikes against civilians. These attacks are serious violations of international humanitarian law (the laws of war), and people who commit such violations with criminal intent are responsible for war crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cn9Rh5aowGc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 80-page report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/reports\/2013\/04\/10\/death-skies\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Death from the Skies: Deliberate and Indiscriminate Air Strikes on Civilians<\/span><\/strong>,<\/a>\u201d is based on visits to 50 sites of government air strikes in opposition-controlled areas in Aleppo, Idlib, and Latakia governorates, and more than 140 interviews with witnesses and victims. The air strikes Human Rights Watch documented killed at least 152 civilians. According to a network of local Syrian activists, air strikes have killed more than 4,300 civilians across Syria since July 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <a title=\"Arab League\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arab_League\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arab League<\/span><\/a>, United States, <a title=\"European Union\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Union\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">European Union<\/span><\/a>, <a title=\"Arab States of the Persian Gulf\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arab_States_of_the_Persian_Gulf\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arab States of the Persian Gulf<\/span><\/a>, and other countries condemned the use of violence against the protesters. The Arab League suspended Syria&#8217;s membership because of the government&#8217;s response to the crisis, but granted the Syrian National Coalition Syria&#8217;s seat on 6 March 2013.<sup id=\"cite_ref-66\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_civil_war#cite_note-66\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[66]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> The Arab League also sent an <a title=\"Arab League monitors in Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arab_League_monitors_in_Syria\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">observer mission<\/span><\/a> in December 2011, as part of its <a title=\"Syrian conflict peace proposals\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_conflict_peace_proposals\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">proposal for peaceful resolution<\/span><\/a> of the crisis. A further attempt to resolve the crisis was made through the appointment of <a title=\"Kofi Annan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kofi_Annan\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kofi Annan<\/span><\/a> as a <a title=\"Kofi Annan peace plan for Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kofi_Annan_peace_plan_for_Syria\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">special envoy<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_civil_war\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_civil_war<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On 15 July 2012, the <a title=\"International Committee of the Red Cross\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Committee of the Red Cross<\/span><\/a> assessed the Syrian conflict as a &#8222;non-international armed conflict&#8220; (the ICRC&#8217;s legal term for <a title=\"Civil war\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_war\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">civil war<\/span><\/a>), thus applying <a title=\"International humanitarian law\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_humanitarian_law\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">international humanitarian law<\/span><\/a> under the <a title=\"Geneva Conventions\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geneva_Conventions\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Geneva Conventions<\/span><\/a> to Syria. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> UNICEF USATime is running out to protect a generation of children caught up in #Syria &#8217;s brutal war. Without further funding, refugee children will face critical water shortages, lose health services, and fall further behind in their educations.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDonate to help UNICEF meet the urgent needs of these children. 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