Just because it's not surprising doesn't mean it's any less
disgusting.
Children were slaughtered, tortured, sexually attacked and
used as human shields by pro-government Syrian forces, according to a
damning United Nations report released late on Monday.
"Children were victims of killing and maiming, arbitrary arrest,
detention, torture and ill-treatment, including sexual violence, by the
Syrian Armed Forces, the intelligence forces, and the Shabbiha militia,"
the U.N.'s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
Radhika Coomaraswamy said in a release issued along with the report.
The shabiha are a pro-government militia that recruits largely from the
Alawite community- the same Muslim sect as President Bashar Assad.
Sunnis, who make up the majority of the rebels, are an estimated 74
percent of the population.
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