MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT : WAR-CRIMES – Syrian-Russian Alliance Forces Target 67 Medical Facilities in Northwest Syria Since April 26, 2019 – Syrian Network for Human Rights

 
I. Introduction
 
The Russian forces’ tactic in targeting medical facilities is to push the people towards despair, displace them and force them to flee and surrender; as one of the superpower countries and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, it is absolutely above international law, and does not care about repeatedly committing war crimes no matter how many, because its objective is to enable its ally the Syrian regime to take control over the entire Syrian territory, and to impose a settlement through which countless war crimes committed by the Russian forces will simply be accepted as a fait accompli. Russia is also wholly indifferent to human rights and, as an undemocratic, largely totalitarian state, has no need to worry about domestic opposition to its forces crimes in Syria, with its state-controlled media coverage also limited. Meanwhile, the Western countries, particularly the United States of America, have not exercised sufficient political and economic pressure to combat or even deter the Russian forces’ deliberate bombing of medical facilities. For all these reasons, Russia’s blatant targeting of medical units and facilities on a horrific scale and intensity is unprecedented in the modern age, and calls for a serious stand by human rights organizations and members of the international legal community around the world.
 
As the Syrian Network for Human Rights’ (SNHR) team has observed over the past nine years and up to the present moment, the targeting of medical facilities in Syria is carried out calculatingly and deliberately, with regime intelligence services first conducting surveillance operations to locate field hospitals, private hospitals or even mobile medical units with the aim of bombing them. On many occasions, we have noted the bombardment of buildings or streets around hospitals in attempts to hit the hospitals directly. We also recorded the repeated targeting of the same medical facilities on a number of occasions, which is evidence of the regime’s and its allies’ obsessive desire to annihilate all medical facilities.
 
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