{"id":19489,"date":"2012-06-12T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T08:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19489"},"modified":"2012-06-12T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:41:28","slug":"syrian-children-presumed-as-human-shields-19489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/syrian-children-presumed-as-human-shields-19489\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian children presumed as &#8216; human shields &#8216;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/syrias-children-0127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/syrias-children-0127.jpg\" alt=\"Syrian children presumed as ' human shields '\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h1>Syrian government forces\u00a0used Syrian children as human shields and subjected them to torture and execution,\u00a0kill or sexually attack in armed conflicts. Syrian military\u00a0have tortured children, executed and finally used them as human shields\u00a0during military raids against protesters.<\/h1>\n<p>The United Nations reporter said that Syrian children as young as eight &#8211; nine years old were\u00a0victims of killing and maiming, arbitrary arrest, detention, torture, and sexual violence, and have been used as human shields. He added also : &#8216;\u00a0In almost all recorded cases, children were among the victims of military operations by government forces, including the Syrian armed forces, the intelligence forces and the shabiha militia, in their ongoing conflict with the opposition, including the Free Syrian Army. &#8216;<\/p>\n<h2>Syrian soldiers have tortured Syrian children and used them as human shileds<\/h2>\n<p>Children have been used by troops and army members as human shields, placing them in front of the windows of buses carrying military personnel into the invasion on the village.\u00a0Quoting witnesses of the Syrian victims,\u00a0surrounded the village for an attack lasted more than 4 days.\u00a0Amidst the eleven dead on the first day were three boys between the ages 15 to 17. Another 34 people, including two boys aged 14 and 16 and a 9-year-old girl, have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u00a0Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict\u00a0Radhika Coomaraswamy has told that while new crises broke out in 2011 &#8216; with a heavy toll on children such as in Syria, and also in Libya, violations against girls and boys have come to an end in other parts of the world. &#8216;<\/p>\n<h3>Dozens of Syrian children have been arrested and tortured<\/h3>\n<p>The suffering of Syrian young children was unusual even for conflict situations, because for the first time\u00a0we heard of children being recruited by the Free Syrian Army mainly in medical and service orientated jobs but still on the front line of war.\u00a0Ban Ki-moon\u00a0&#8211; the\u00a0United Nations chief \u00a0said that the report had uncovered one of many &#8216; grave violations &#8216; against children in Syria.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! 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Syrian military have tortured children executed them and finally used them as human shields during military raids against protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,101,14],"tags":[24834,24840,24842,10540,24835,24839,24838,24837,24836,24843],"class_list":["post-19489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-world","tag-human-shields","tag-human-shields-syria","tag-syria-army","tag-syrian-armed-forces","tag-syrian-children","tag-syrian-children-dead","tag-syrian-children-deaths","tag-syrian-children-killed","tag-syrian-children-tortured","tag-syrian-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}