Eight days of barrel bomb strikes across Aleppo Province have taken a heavy toll on civilian bystanders, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights putting the toll at 301 killed, including 87 children.
Exact figures are impossible to verify and several different factions offered different splits on civilians versus rebels killed in the barrel bombings, but the trend is clear, that the strikes killed massive numbers of non-combatants.
That’s unsurprising. Barrel bombs, a makeshift munition that amounts to an oil barrel filled with TNT and pushed out the back of a helicopter, are powerful but notoriously imprecise.
That’s a particular problem because the bombs have been used primarily in areas where the rebels are dug-in, and that often means highly populated districts where civilian deaths are inevitable.
Don't worry about about the alleged "barrel bombs". The 'freedom fighting' "rebels" are coming back strong by sending suicide bombers to "liberate" Aleppo hospitals:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25479…
Let me guess this is another "crime against humanity" by the Syrian government? Funny how that term only comes to be applied against governments that refuse to kowtow to the empire.
The whole notion that one's own side does 'surgical strikes' and 'humanitarian bombing' while the other does -er- whatever's appropos for drumming up contempt for them…. Interesting to contrast how 'precise' drones are taken to be, with net results likely not much of an improvement if at all,…, 'smart-bombs' before them, http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/06/02/thomas-e-wood… "Smartbombs weren't so smart …the Patriot Missile that was a lotta propaganda …"
When you have terrorists using civilians as human shields, awful things happen in war.
Please stop using the SOHR as some sort of authority. Your rebels have lost the moral high ground long ago, murdering innocent Christian civvies in cold blood and stuffing some into bakery ovens.
So right. If this were Hezbollah, and it was the US or Israel doing the bombing, it would be Hezbollah's fault for "hiding among civilians and using them as human shields."
Kind of like how bin Laden used his wife as a human shield… but oh wait that was a lie.
Kind of like how Hezbollah used human shields in 2006…. but oh wait that was also a lie.
But the US and Saudi backed Syrian terrorists are not pulling women and children in front of them, if you ask the USA!
US imperalism, zionism and their puppets, Saudis, are responsible for Syrian massacre funding their trained terrorists, like in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somali, Pakistan, Iran, Mali, Africa, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere. Assad should stay firm and wipe all the CIA/mossad trained terrorists from Syria and the middle east including their fu*king supporters in the western capitals. People of Asia, Middle East, Africa and E. Urope must be united against the war criminals and their puppets to remove the stain on face of humanity.