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SYRIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE accused rebel fighters of executing 21 civilians, including women and children, at close range as they quit second city Aleppo last week, state media reported.
The bodies were found in two neighbourhoods in east Aleppo, state news agency SANA said late Sunday.
The head of Aleppo’s forensic unit Zaher Hajjo told SANA that “21 corpses of civilian victims, including five children and four women, killed by terrorist groups” were examined.
“The bodies were found in prisons run by the terrorist groups in Sukkari and al-Kalasseh, and they were found to have been executed by gunshot at very close range,” Hajjo was quoted as saying.
Under a landmark deal brokered by regime ally Russia and rebel backer Turkey, 35,000 rebels and civilians left the former opposition stronghold of east Aleppo last week.
Executed
Days before the evacuations began, the UN said it had received credible reports of at least 82 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children, being executed by pro-government forces in Aleppo.
On Monday, the Russian defence ministry said “dozens of Syrians” were summarily executed in east Aleppo by rebels.
“Mass graves containing dozens of Syrians who were summarily executed and subjected to savage torture have been discovered,” spokesman Igor Konachenkov said, according to Russian agencies.
Cruelty
He said most had been killed by gunshot wounds to the head and many bodies “were not whole,” and that thorough investigations would force opposition backers in the West to “recognise their responsibility for the cruelty” of rebels.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that bodies had been found in east Aleppo’s streets, but could not specify how they had been killed.
World powers have been fiercely divided over Syria’s conflict since it first erupted in March 2011, with Russia firmly backing Assad and Gulf powers and much of the West supporting the opposition.
The high-profile battle for Aleppo, in particular, has sparked accusations by Western powers that Russia and the government were committing war crimes.
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Just wait till this boy has to choose a Nursing home for his Dad !
Yeah Dad, it’s called ‘Shady Acres’. Lots of outdoor activities, you’ll love it!
Fookashima…..or that Callous Attracta kip on Emperor Kenny’s patch!
How in a story about a child that went missing in Japan did you manage to find some relevance to Enda Kenny? Do you honestly have nothing better to do?
This kid managed to survive the bear infested forest for week.
Enda wouldn’t be able to find his way out of a phone box.
Andy, Im just waiting for someone to blame denis o brien.
Cathal……Digicel had no coverage in the area.
If my father had just left me in the forest for 6 nights I would be singing his praises too instead of been sent back for another stint
This story just keeps getting fishier.
Forgive me or I will leave you for a month next time
I hope the lad is playing a long game till the parents are old so he can drop them off in the forest.
Very lucky parents. That’s going to leave a mental scar on the child though…
What a brave little boy! He is a survivor and will go far in life
He wasn’t abandoned in a forest. Really misleading headline. You must might disagree with what he did, but at least try and be accurate with the circumstances.
He wasn’t abandoned in the forest. People never check their facts.
Delighted that all has worked out and the boy was found. All the judge, jury and executioners on here already had the perents hung for murder
Turned boys into men in Greek times and God knows the world is running out of real men….hope this turns into a trend.
Sounds like something a certain Seanad panto queen would ‘filabluster’ at great length and no little pains!
It’s a bit like Sepp Blatter saying “Sepp Blatter is not corrupt, trust me”.
Little brat
I wood too if I was the lad. I woodn’t want to branch away from my family. I’d be a chip off the old block and call my own children Hansel and Gretel.
Handful and Regrettal…… just coodn’t see it for the trees!!
Does a bear shit in the woods?? Of course daddy is gonna say he was forgiven.
Throwing stones at passing cars.
Cmon lads, You can’t do that.
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