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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Government forces rounded up dozens of boys aged eight to 13 before an attack
on the village of Ayn l’Arouz in Idlib province on March 9, the report said.
The children were “used by soldiers and militia members as human shields,
placing them in front of the windows of buses carrying military personnel
into the raid on the village,” it said.
Quoting witnesses, the UN report said Syrian
military and intelligence forces, as well as pro-government Shabiha
militiamen, surrounded the village for an attack that lasted more than four
days.
Among the 11 dead on the first day were three boys aged 15 to 17. Another 34
people, including two boys aged 14 and 16 and a nine-year-old girl, were
detained.
“Eventually, the village was reportedly left burned and four out of the
34 detainees were shot and burned, including the two boys aged 14 and 16
years,” the Children in Armed Conflict report said.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the report had uncovered one of many “grave
violations” against children.
The Syrian government, and its allied militias, was one of four new parties
added to the UN’s list of shame – along with organisations and political
parties in Sudan and Yemen.
The list includes 52 parties in 11 countries, ranging from the Afghan national
police and the anti-US Haqqani network to the Lord’s Resistance Army in
central Africa, Sudanese armed forces and various Darfur rebel groups.
The report said children in Syria as young as nine had been victims of killing
and maiming, arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and ill-treatment,
including sexual violence and use as human shields.
Schools have been regularly raided and used as military bases and detention
centres, the report said.
The report was completed before the Houla massacre on May 25, when 49 of the
108 victims were said to be children, some as young as two and three, who
were shot in the head or had their skulls smashed with blunt instruments.
“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,” said the UN report.
At least one witness told investigators he had seen a boy of approximately 15
succumb to repeated beatings.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the UN Security Council
should impose an arms embargo and other sanctions on the Assad government
over its violations against children.
HRW quoted the Syria Violations Documentation Center, a network of Syrian
activists, as saying that at least 1,176 children have been killed since
February 2011.
It also said there were “credible allegations” that armed opposition
groups, including the Free Syrian Army (FSA), are recruiting children as
soldiers.
It was reported early on Tuesday that a mortar round hit an anti-government
demonstration in Deir el-Zour, in the east of the country, killing at least
10 people.
Activists say more than 13,000 people have been killed since Syria’s crisis,
the worst in decades, began in March 2011.
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