The comprehensive statistical report on violations in Daraa governorate during January 2022
January 2022 witnessed a continuation of assassinations and arrests in Daraa governorate within the security chaos that has increased in frequency since the settlement agreement was concluded in July 2018 between the Syrian regime and the opposition factions under Russian auspices.
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The documentation office in the Ahrar Horan Gathering recorded January the killing of 29 people in Daraa governorate, including two who were killed outside the governorate.
In the details, the office documented the killing of a former leader of the Free Army under torture in Sednaya Military Prison, who was arrested after the regime took control of the governorate, while the killing of a “civilian” young man was recorded by the regime forces, in addition to the killing of a “civilian” man by stray bullets while working in the lands. agricultural.
The Violations Documentation Office in the Ahrar Houran Gathering counted 20 assassination attempts and assassinations, killing 19 people, injuring 8 with varying degrees of injuries, and surviving 3 assassination attempts.
Regarding the distribution of the assassination deaths, 14 civilians were killed, including 5 former members of the opposition factions who did not join any military formation after the settlement was made, while 5 non-civilians were killed, distributed as follows: Two former members of the opposition factions joined after the settlement within a committee Central Daraa in the western countryside of the province, and two former members of the opposition factions became involved after the settlement within the Military Intelligence Division of the Syrian regime, and a former member of the opposition factions became, after the settlement, a leader within the Fourth Division.
According to the office, all assassination operations and attempts that were documented in January were carried out by “shooting” with Russian “Kalashnikov” machine guns, except one operation by an “improvised explosive device” and another by a “hand grenade.”
It is customary for no party to claim responsibility for the assassinations that take place in Daraa Governorate, to record these operations under an unknown name, at a time when the people and activists of the province accuse the security services of the Syrian regime and its allied militias by recruiting local militias of being behind many of the assassinations, which It often affects opponents of the regime and the Iranian expansion project in the region.
The office also documented the killing of two “lieutenant” officers from Daraa governorate in the ranks of the regime forces during armed clashes with the opposition factions in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo.
In the Criminal Division, the office documented the killing of 5 “civilians,” three of them were shot as a result of clan disputes, one was shot while under the influence of drugs, and one as a result of the explosion of foreign body remnants of war while emptying explosive materials to use the materials in the search for gold.
Forced Hiding:
During January, the office documented the arrest of 21 people by the regime forces in Daraa governorate, 11 of whom were released during the same month.
According to the office, it documented 4 raids in Daraa governorate during January. The first operation was carried out by Military Intelligence forces in the city of Nawa, which resulted in the arrest of a young civilian, and the second was carried out by members of Military Intelligence in the Al-Sabil neighborhood of Daraa Al-Mahatta, which resulted in the arrest of 4 civilians who were released in On the same day, the third was carried out by Air Force Intelligence in the city of Al-Harak, which resulted in the arrest of a civilian, who was released on the same day.
Lawyer Assem Al-Zoubi, director of the Violations Documentation Office in the Ahrar Horan Gathering, points out that the number of detainees in Daraa governorate is greater than the number documented by the office, due to the reluctance of many families of detainees to provide information about their children due to security concerns, due to the security grip imposed by the security services affiliated with the regime in the governorate, stressing that the process of checking the detainees’ data is taking place on an ongoing basis in the office.
The office recorded 3 cases of kidnapping, including a doctor, during January in Daraa governorate. 2 of them were released during the same month. In one of the two cases, it was noted that a large ransom was paid to the kidnapper in exchange for his release, while the fate of the kidnapped doctor is still unknown until the time of preparing the report.
The office recorded the release of a civilian kidnapper three months after his abduction after his relatives paid a large ransom of money to the kidnapper in exchange for his release.
Infrastructure targeting:
The office documented the indiscriminate shelling of the regime forces stationed in Brigade 52 Meka and Tal al-Kharouf on residential houses in the city of Al-Harak and the town of Al-Maliha Al-Gharbiyeh and the surrounding plains, with 120-caliber mortar shells and Al-Fozdika shells, which resulted in the injury of (8 women and children), all of them from the city movement, including two cases of amputations.
