Regime forces’ savage practices continue against martyrs’ graves in Idlib 

Regime forces continue their retaliatory and inhuman practices. The Syrian Observatory has obtained a video footage showing a regime soldier, a resident of Saraqeb, breaking the tombstones of the martyrs of the Syrian revolution and swearing at them using obscene expletives.

On March 12, the Syrian Observatory has obtained a video footage of a regime soldier, a resident of Hish town in rural Idlib, showing the soldier swearing at his father and relatives using obscene expletives, and tearing up his father’s university certificate, which he found it in his home while breaking and destroying the house contents.

On February 17, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored “regime Shabiha” in Hayyan town exhuming and defiling bodies at cemeteries and desecrating and destroying the graves and the remains of the martyrs of the Syrian revolution, ‘exacting’ revenge on opponents of the Syrian regime, and humiliating their displaced relatives.

This comes against the backdrop of the Syrian regime repeatedly claiming to protect civilians and opening humanitarian corridors to allow people in; yet, these actions are a clear message that opponents of the Syrian regime and their families are not accepted in their areas and are still wanted whether alive or dead.