Border guards kill more citizens on borderline with Idlib

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: A young man from Sahl Al-Ghab in the north-western countryside of Hama, was killed after being shot by the Turkish border guards while he was trying to cross the borderline with the Sanjak of Alexandretta, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented on Friday that the Turkish border guards, targeted a citizen woman while she was trying to cross to the Sanjak of Alexandretta, in the area of Al-Dorriyeh near Darkush in the countryside of Jisr Al-Shughur, at noon of Friday the 11th of August 2017, the Turkish Jandarma continued to target the place where the body was, without allowing the civil defense teams or citizens to approach the body’s location, SOHR also documented yesterday the 9th of August 2017, that a young man from the city of Homs was killed after being shot by Turkish border guards, SOHR also published last Tuesday that a young man from a village belonging to the city of Al-Malikiyah “Dayrik”, was killed by the Turkish border guards, and in the details documented by SOHR from reliable sources, the young man was killed during trying to cross from the Turkish side to the Syrian territory, the young man’s family accused the Turkish border guards of arresting, torturing and beating him to death, and threw his body on the Syrian-Turkish border, as well as preventing his family from approaching the body by targeting the place where it was thrown in the countryside of the city of Al-Malikiyah “Dayrik”.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on July 31st that it received in the past month and weeks several videos shows the victims of the Turkish border guards, of who were killed while they were trying to find a safe haven in Turkey, while a lot of the videos showed the Turkish border guards assaulting Syrian citizens after being arrested during their attempts to cross the border line, where members of the Turkish border guards beat and insult them, the last video SOHR has received was on Sunday the 30th of July 2017, and the video showed assault by hands and by a whip on several arrested young men, the video showed the young men being beaten brutally and insulted intentionally while being asked: “what do you have in Turkey to come to it? And are you smugglers?! Are you going to come to Turkey again?!”, then one of the members called his friend and commanded him to beat one of the arrested young men, and told the member who was recording the video: send me the video so I can publish it on WhatsApp, then he threatened them in case they returned to Turkey, saying: “If you are afraid of beaten why did you come to Turkey, do you want us to treat you good?!

This Targeting by the Turkish border guards raised the death toll of citizens who were killed by their bullets while trying to cross the border ,and some of them were killed under the brutal torture of some members, raising to 292 at least, including 55 child and 29 citizen women, the number of people documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights since the start of the Syrian revolution until the 30th of July 2017, all of them were killed in the continued targeting by the Turkish border guards for the Syrian citizens who escaped the military operation in their areas towards places in which they can find a safe haven the keeps them away of the death that is following them in their country Syria, in order for their children to have a better life and their fate doesn’t end up to be like the fate of more than 18500 children killed since the start of the Syrian revolution, or the fate of tens of thousands of other children who had permanent disabilities, or the fate of thousands of children who were dragged into the military operation and turned into fighters and bombers.