The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

“Islamic State” executes 65 civilians, including women, in the 15th month of the declaration of its alleged state

SOHR could document execution of 65 people in the 15th month of declaring IS alleged caliphate. The executions carried out in different areas in Syria in the period from August 29 to September 29, where “Islamic State” executed 38 civilians, including 2 women, 3 of its own militants 5 fighters from the rebel and Islamist factions, at least 10 members from the regime forces and allied militiamen, most of them beheaded, 2 defected soldiers and 7 NDF members, including a child. 

 

The executions carried out for sorcery, finding a WhatsApp conversation with relatives belong to Asoud al- Sharqiyya Army in al- Qalamoun, participating in the war against establishing Allah law and Islamic State, being a soldier in the regime Nusayri army, being a leader in a sleeping cell of the popular committees, smuggling ammunition from IS-held areas to the regime-held areas, belonging to the Awakening Movements and communicating with the Nusayri regime, banditry and looting people’s money, being agents for the awakening movement in Aleppo and Turkey, killing a person, cooperating for the sake of Nusayris (Alawites), sodomy, adultery, kidnapping people, killing them and anatomizing their corpses to buy their members, insulting God, mischief in earth, belonging to awakening movements in the past and not attending the course of repentance as well as having weapons.”  

 

Thus, the number of civilians, rebels, IS militants, members of the regime forces and allied militiamen who were executed by IS since the declaration of its alleged caliphate in 6/29/2014 until this morning has risen to 3221, where It executed 1879 civilians, including 76 children and 99 women, by shooting, beheading, stoning, throwing off high place and burning in the provinces of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Deir Ezzor, al- Raqqa, al- Hasakah, Aleppo, Homs and Hama. They executed more than 930 Arab Sunni civilians of al- Shaitat tribe’s people in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, 223 Kurdish citizens by shooting them and by bladed weapons in the city of Ayn al- Arab and village of Barkh Botan and 46 civilians by burning and beheading in the village of al- Mab’ojah inhabited by people of Alawi, Ismaeili and Sunni sects in the east of the city of Salamiyyah.

 

Meanwhile, the number of fighters of YPG, Jabhat al- Nusra, rebel and Islamic battalions who were executed after arresting them by IS due to the ongoing clashes among these parties reached to 241.

 

IS also executed 185 members of its own militants for “exceeding the limits in religion and spying for foreign countries”, most of them executed after arresting them during their attempt to come back home.

 

907 officers and soldiers of the regime forces were also executed by IS. They were arrested during clashes between IS and the regime forces.

 

Meanwhile, they executed 2 defected soldiers who did not join any armed faction, where they shot them for “apostasy” and after that they crucified them the square of the village of Hmar in the countryside of Deir Ezzor. 

 

SOHR appeal UN Security Council, all countries and organization that claim the respect of human rights to work urgently in order to stop the crimes and violations, committed against the Syrian people by IS, Bashar al- Assad regime and all other parties, and establish specialist courts to sentence them. We also call them to support the Syrian people in order to reach to the state of freedom, democracy, justice and equality that preserve the rights of all components of the Syrian people regardless of their sects, religion and ethnics who have coexisted for better future for Syria although there are some media campaigns that work on destroying the social structure of our home Syria.