Since the beginning of Geneva 2, Al-Assad has killed 206 Syrians

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that the bloodshed has not stopped in Syria for the fourth day since the beginning of the peace conference in Geneva, as the regime’s forces continued shelling residential neighborhoods with rockets explosive barrels, while torture detention centers has not stopped.

In its statement issued Sunday, the SNHR said that its team has documented the deaths of 206 civilians, including 32 children, 24 women and 44 persons who were tortured to death during the past three days while the peace conference was taking place. The SNHR added that 28 percent of the victims are women and children, explaining that this is a clear indication that the government forces are targeting civilians.

The SNHR demanded the international community to exercise real pressure to force the Syrian government to put an immediate end to the bombing and torture of civilians.

On the other hand, the meetings between the Syrian regime and opposition have begun on Saturday in the Swiss city of Geneva, in the presence of the joint UN and Arab envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, to discuss a cease-fire in the city of Homs, and the entering of humanitarian aid to the besieged areas in the city.

According to senior sources in the delegation of the Syrian opposition coalition, the negotiating team was headed on Sunday by the chief negotiator Hadi al-Bahra, and no one was absent, whereas Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, continued chairing the regime’s delegation.

The two Syrian delegations discussed the humanitarian situation in the city of Homs and ways to deliver aid to it after the announcement of a ceasefire, in order to establish a better dialogue between the parties, as described by Brahimi at a press conference that was held at the end of Saturday’s negotiations.

The joint UN-Arab envoy assured, on Saturday, that the negotiations conducted during the evening session between the parties involved in the conflict in Syria addressed the issue of delivering humanitarian aid to the old neighborhood of Homs, expressing his hope that the aid will be entering the besieged neighborhood in the coming days.

High-level sources in the negotiating delegation of the Syrian opposition coalition in Geneva revealed that it is expected that 12 tons of food and medical aid will enter the besieged areas in the city of Homs, in the middle of the country, within the negotiations’ framework of the Geneva 2 Conference.

The Syrian opposition delegation presented a list of tens of thousands of detainees in the regime’s prisons, including thousands of women and children, for their release, within the context of the conference’s negotiations.