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Assad's Forces Using Women and Children as Human Shields
(Christian Science Monitor) Rolla Scolari - Refugees fleeing Syria's Idlib province have given detailed eyewitness accounts of numerous incidents of Syrian security forces using women and children as human shields in recent weeks. They described seeing Syrian soldiers forcing children to march in front of their tanks as government forces advanced into rebel strongholds. "The use of human shields is a war crime and those responsible should be held accountable," said Human Rights Watch researcher Ole Solvang. HRW also issued a report documenting more than a dozen incidents of summary executions, in which Syrian forces killed at least 101 civilians and wounded or captured rebels.