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Human rights group says Syrian forces have executed more than 100 people

(9 Apr 2012) 1. Wide of Tom Porteous, deputy program director at Human Rights Watch, talking to journalist 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Porteous, Deputy program director, Human Rights Watch: "Well, in terms of the summary executions and extra-judicial executions, we have managed to corroborate at least a hundred cases. Some, many of these were actually mass executions, where several, multiple victims were involved. This may well just be the tip of the iceberg." 3. Wide of Porteous and journalist 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Porteous, Deputy program director, Human Rights Watch: "We have documented abuses by the Free Syrian Army and other groups fighting against Syrian security forces in Syria. We have actually written to the Syrian opposition and called on them to condemn such abuses. But whether or not the Syrian opposition is involved in abuses, this in no way justifies the crimes that are being committed by the Syrian, by the Syrian security forces." 5. Wide of Porteous and journalist 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Porteous, Deputy program director, Human Rights Watch: "We think it's very important that any supervisory mission that is sent by the UN should include a human rights component, a component of human rights monitors who can document these kinds of abuses that have been taking place in Syria and that are continuing in Syria today." 7. Wide of Porteous and journalist STORYLINE: A new report by the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that Syrian forces have summarily executed more than a hundred people, most of them civilians. Tom Porteous, deputy program director at HRW, told the Associated Press on Monday that these killings may only be the "tip of the iceberg". "Many of these were actually mass executions, where several, multiple victims were involved," Porteous said HRW also claims there have been human rights abuses committed by Syrian opposition forces. "We have documented abuses by the Free Syrian Army and other groups fighting against Syrian security forces in Syria," Porteous said. "We have actually written to the Syrian opposition and called on them to condemn such abuses." In total, HRW documented the killings of 85 civilians, including women and children, and the killings of at least 16 wounded or captured opposition fighters allegedly committed by Syrian forces. The New York-based group said it only included cases corroborated by witnesses, but has received many more reports of similar incidents. The United Nations, meanwhile, estimates that some 9-thousand people have been killed in Syria since March 2011, when an uprising began against President Bashar Assad. Human Rights Watch is urging the international community, particularly the UN, to intervene in the violence. "We think it's very important that any supervisory mission that is sent by the UN should include a human rights component, a component of human rights monitors who can document these kinds of abuses that have been taking place in Syria and that are continuing in Syria today," Porteous said on Monday. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has brokered a deal that is supposed to begin with Syria pulling its troops out of population centres by Tuesday morning, with a full cease-fire by both sides within 48 hours. But hopes for the plan are collapsing after a fresh wave of violence on Monday and new demands by the regime for written guarantees that the opposition will lay down arms first. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...