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At Least 3,601 Barrel Bombs Dropped by the Syrian Regime in 2018

SNHR has released its monthly report documenting the use of barrel bombs by Syrian Regime, in which SNHR documented 3,601 barrel bombs dropped by Syrian Regime forces in 2018.

  The report notes that the Syrian regime has used improvised, low-cost, highly-effective weapons in order to kill as many victims as possible and inflict as much widespread destruction as possible. Barrel bombs have been one of the most widely used improvised weapons since March 2011. The first documented barrel bomb attack, according to the report, was on July 18, 2012 in Dael city, northern Daraa governorate, with five civilians killed in that attack, including one female child and three women while around eight others were injured.

The report adds that it took the Security Council around a year and a half after that attack to adopt resolution 2139 on February 22, 2014, which condemned the use of barrel bombs, However, the Syrian regime has continued to subject areas outside of its control to a dreadful daily rain of dozens of barrel bombs.

Read more at: http://sn4hr.org/blog/2019/01/07/53023/

IMO, in my opinion, Russia siding with a regime using barrel bombs is almost unfathomable, barrels filled with shrapnel, nails, screws and blowing up when dropped on the ground cause indiscriminate damage all around, as said by many analysts, targeting civilians.  We've supported unscrupulous rulers but this may be a new low for anyone and with Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah help, makes one question as to why they are doing this. Bombs kill is what some say back, it be pinpoint strikes or what.
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