The United Nations has announced that Syrian Terrorist are using children as human shields and torturing some children whose parents’ are suspected of being dissidents.
U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous replies when asked if we can say Syria is at a state of civil war Yes, I think we can say that,Clearly what is happening is that the government of Syria lost some large chunks of territory, several cities to the opposition, and wants to retake control.”
Ladsous’ spokesperson Kieran Dwyer said “Whether we call it all-out civil war ,whether we call it partial civil war, civil war in some places, the point is that it’s hugely escalated, that it’s across nearly all parts of the country and that the civilians, ordinary Syrian people, are the ones that are suffering, Most child victims of torture described being beaten, blindfolded, subjected to stress positions, whipped with heavy electrical cables, scarred by cigarette burns and, in one recorded case, subjected to electrical shock to the genitals. Children were detained and tortured because their siblings or parents were assumed to be members of the opposition or FSA, or they themselves were suspected of being associated with FSA.”
The U.N. has estimated more than 10,000 deaths since the crisis erupted in March of 2011.
