Tenth murder in regime-held areas | Regime soldier kills his son under brutal torture in Daraa

Daraa province: SOHR activists have reported that a member of the 9th Division has killed his son under brutal torture today, where SOHR obtained a video tape showing signs of brutal torturing on the child’s body. The reasons behind this crime remain unknown.

This murder, which is the tenth in regime-held areas in April, comes as a part of the escalating security chaos throughout Syria, particularly in areas under the control of the Syrian regime.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 50 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2022, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 14 children, seven women and 29 men dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
• A young lady and two men in Damascus.
• Two little boys, two little girls, an old man, a woman and five men in Rif Dimashq.
• Two men and two women in Tartus.
• Three men, a baby and two ladies in Hama.
• A young woman, a little girl, a little boy, a baby and eight young men in Al-Suwaidaa.
• Three men and a young man in Deir Ezzor.
• A baby and a man in Aleppo.
• Two men and four children in Daraa.
• A man and a little girl in Homs.