Assad regime uses civilians as human shields, lures a group of refugees in an ambush by promising them release from the besieged district in Damascus.. Moadamiyeh, #Damascus province, 16-10-2013: Regime forces’ brutal bombardment and crippling siege of Moadamiyeh is continuing without pause. The already catastrophic humanitarian situation has worsened further, with an estimated 2,000 women and children from the town, who regime forces had agreed to allow to leave, now being used by Assad’s troops as human shields in another regime effort to storm the town. After the regime ‘allowed’ a number of sick and injured civilians, almost all women and children, to leave the town two days ago, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers and the local FSA military leadership and Moadamiyeh town council heads had negotiated a deal with regime forces to allow another group of around 2,000 women, children and elderly people to leave today. Early this morning, FSA soldiers and civilian security officials protecting the group accompanied them to the arranged location at a regime checkpoint to await the arrival of the ICRC officials who were supposed to take them to safety or at least to a location outside the besieged town where they could find food and medical treatment. Instead, the group of civilians was betrayed by the regime officials who organised the transfer, with regime troops at the headquarters of the regime’s infamous Fourth Armoured Division shelling the point where the civilians were gathered while the ICRC officials fled, abandoning the women, children and elderly people to their fate. Many among the group of civilians were killed or injured in the regime bombardment. Others among the traumatised and terrified civilians were taken hostage by regime troops at the checkpoint to be used as human shields in the regime’s effort to storm the town. Although the heroes of the FSA fought bravely to attempt to free them, a large number were killed. The...
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:37:19 +0000
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