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Syria accused of using torture on children

Kids as young as 13 plucked from homes and schools for beatings and electrocution by out of control Syrian regime.

The United Nations says hundreds of children have been killed in the crackdown over the past 10 months, and the rights group on Friday highlighted cases of children shot in their homes or on the street, or grabbed from schools.

Human Rights Watch released 12 examples of children being tortured in detention and said many more may have suffered similar treatment.

“Children, some as young as 13, reported to Human Rights Watch that officers kept them in solitary confinement, severely beat and shocked them, burned them with cigarettes, and left them to dangle from metal handcuffs for hours,” said the report.

According to one of the children’s mother, security officers burned her son with cigarettes on his neck and hands and threw boiling water on his body.

Another 13-year-old told Human Rights Watch that security forces tortured him for three days at a military security branch after he was detained in May.

He said he fell unconscious after being shocked in the stomach.

“When they interrogated me the second time, they beat me and electrocuted me again. The third time they had some pliers, and they pulled out my toenail,”

Human Rights Watch called on the UN Security Council to demand that the Syrian government end all human rights violations and co-operate with a UN Human Rights Council investigation and Arab League monitors.

57 children were murdered yesterday alone during, what’s now being called, the ‘Hums Massacre’.

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