United Nations S/2012/325

Security Council Distr.: General 8 June 2012

Original: English

Identical letters dated 15 May 2012 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

Upon instructions from my Government, and following my letters dated 16-20 and 23-25 April and 7, 11, 14 and 15 May 2012, I have the honour to transmit herewith a detailed list of violations of cessation of violence committed by armed groups in on 13 May 2012 (see annex). It would be highly appreciated if the present letter and its annex could be circulated as a document of the Security Council.

(Signed) Bashar Ja’afari Ambassador Permanent Representative

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Annex to the identical letters dated 15 May 2012 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

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Sunday, 13 May 2012

Rif Dimashq governorate

1. At 2200 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated a noise bomb and planted explosive devices at the Ghazal junction in the Hujayrah area. 2. At 0000 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated two explosive devices near the Anas bin Malik in Kiswah. 3. At 0030 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint in Ghutah, killing Corporal Muhannad Duyub. 4. At 0730 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted the engineer Brigadier Hasan Faris Adib from in front of his home on the old square in Ayn Tarma. 5. At 1030 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the law enforcement checkpoint in Shayfuniyah, injuring two officers. 6. At 1200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on and injured Sergeant Ala‘ Husayn Sallum as he was passing through . 7. At 1230 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked Private Mustafa Yusif Uthman in the Hawsh Arab area, beating him. 8. At 1600 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on guard post personnel in Burayj. 9. At 1800 hours, an armed terrorist group fired indiscriminately in the refugee camp located in the vicinity of the Hujayrah roundabout in Sayyida Zaynab. 10. At 0800 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked an aerial reconnaissance battalion in the Mulayhah area, killing two men and abducting three. The group also stole some weapons and injured the battalion commander and his deputy. 11. At 1245 hours, an armed terrorist group stole the sum of 11 million Syrian pounds from the Commercial Bank of Syria in Yabrud. 12. At 1200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the law enforcement checkpoints in Duma, killing two civilians and injuring another.

Damascus governorate

13. At 0100 hours, an armed terrorist group using pistols equipped with silencers shot and killed Hasan Maghribi, the owner of a sweets shop in Maydan. 14. At 0830 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device inside the governorate maintenance centre in Adawi. The device had been planted in a Mazda Zoom 3 vehicle, licence plate No. 881093, belonging to engineer Ali Haydar, an employee of the centre.

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15. At 0230 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked the law enforcement forces in Jawbar.

Dar‘a governorate

16. At 2015 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the headquarters of one of the border guard battalions near the old customs house in Dar‘a town centre. The attack was launched from the north east, in the vicinity of the olive press, and from the south east of the headquarters. 17. At 2200 hours, an armed terrorist group fired indiscriminately in Dar‘a city, injuring a female civilian. 18. An armed terrorist group fired intermittently on the military barracks in Mahjah. 19. At 0000 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the home of the civilian Jadallah al-Shukr in . 20. At 0200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a guard post in Dar‘a. 21. At 0210 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on border guards stationed at post No. 43 in the Tall Zar‘ al-Wadi area. 22. At 0215 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the residences of military families in Qanayyah. 23. At 0300 hours, an armed terrorist group burned down the home of the civilian Ali Husayn Ahmad in Shajarah. 24. At 0330 hours, an armed terrorist group burned down two shops belonging to Faris Ghalib al-Humsi and Wasim Qasim Abbas in Kahil. 25. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device as a vehicle belonging to the law enforcement forces passed through the Dar‘a station area, injuring three officers. 26. At 1030 hours, an armed terrorist group stopped and abducted conscripts Tariq al-Rajab and Ismat Bahri as they were going from their workplace in Dar‘a to Suwayda’. 27. At 1030 hours, an armed terrorist group fired shots and a rocket-propelled grenade at the Jizah locality administration building and the guardhouse. 28. At 1500 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire indiscriminately in Dar‘a camp, killing the child Umar Ahmad al-Ma‘arik. 29. At 0400 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement checkpoints in the town of Harak. 30. At 0200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement checkpoints in the town of Da‘il. 31. At 0400 hours, the body of a man was discovered on the Damascus-Dar‘a highway. The victim had been tortured and stabbed. 32. An armed terrorist group attacked the military checkpoint in the town of Harak abducted a lieutenant and 12 conscripts and seized their weapons.

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33. An armed terrorist group attacked the military checkpoint in the town of ‘ and kidnapped a captain and 16 conscripts and seized their weapons. 34. At 0200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a police vehicle, injuring its driver. 35. At 1330 hours, an armed terrorist group staged an ambush near Sanamayn, killing one sergeant and injuring another.

Qunaytirah governorate

36. At 0400 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked a police station in the village of Qusaybah and abducted eight police officers and seized their weapons.

Homs governorate

37. At 2130 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of the Qarabis quarter on law enforcement personnel near the Health Directorate. 38. At 2145 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of the quarter on law enforcement personnel near the Sayyid al-Ra’is roundabout. 39. At 2155 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of Suq al-Hashish and Bab al-Turkuman on law enforcement personnel near the citadel. 40. At 2240 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in Khalidiyah, injuring an officer. 41. At 2315 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of Khalidiyah on law enforcement personnel in Cairo Street. 42. At 2355 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the Qarabis quarter, injuring an officer. 43. At 0000 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the end of Ishrin Street on law enforcement personnel near the university campus. 44. At 0030 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement patrol in Tadmur, injuring an officer. 45. At 0045 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in Madabi‘, injuring an officer. 46. At 0100 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the Qusur quarter, injuring an officer. 47. At 0200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of Bab al-Turkuman on law enforcement officers near the citadel. 48. At 0600 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of Bab and Bab al-Turkuman on law enforcement personnel near Khalid bin al-Walid school and the cultural centre. 49. An armed terrorist group fired intermittently at law enforcement checkpoints in the Qusayr quarter, injuring an officer. 50. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group fired intermittently at law enforcement personnel in Khalidiyah.

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51. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the Qusayr area. 52. At 1130 hours, an armed terrorist group fired shots and a tear-gas canister at law enforcement personnel and fired on municipal employees in Qusayr, incapacitating a crane belonging to the municipality. 53. At 1245 hours, an armed terrorist group fired machine-guns at law enforcement personnel in Wadi al-Sayih. 54. At 1325 hours, an armed terrorist group opened heavy fire on law enforcement personnel in Madabi‘, injuring an officer. 55. At 1430 hours, an armed terrorist group fired shots and rocket-propelled grenades at law enforcement personnel in Rastan, killing conscript Sulayman Mustafa al-Ali and injuring another conscript. 56. At 1445 hours, an armed terrorist group fired shots and rocket-propelled grenades at the Abrash petrol station in Talbisah, setting it on fire. 57. At 1530 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the law enforcement checkpoint in Cairo Street, injuring an officer. 58. At 1535 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of the market on law enforcement personnel near police headquarters. 59. At 1545 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a vehicle transporting United Nations observers as it passed through the clock tower roundabout in Qusayr, damaging the vehicle. The observers returned to their headquarters. 60. At 1930 hours, an armed terrorist group fired shots, rocket-propelled grenades and LAW rockets from the direction of the Mustafa mosque at law enforcement personnel in Rastan. 61. At 1940 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the customs post and guardhouse in Tall Kalakh. 62. At 2155 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement checkpoints in the direction of Suq al-Hashish and Bab al-Turkuman. 63. At 0600 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement checkpoints at Bab Hud in the Khidr quarter.

Hama governorate

64. At 2130 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a private Kia Rio vehicle, licence plate No. 494512, at the Sunaydah turn-off on the Salmiyah- road. The driver, a civilian named Qusay Haydar, was injured and the vehicle damaged by the gunfire. 65. At 2230 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted police officer Sami Shahadah and Privates Ubayd al-Salim, al-Hasan and Abdulkarim al-Ahmad on the road. 66. At 2315 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the law enforcement checkpoint near Na‘isah school from between some residential buildings.

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67. At 0610 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated three explosive devices as a law enforcement vehicle that was patrolling the Hamamiyat area passed by, injuring five officers and damaging the vehicle. 68. At 0700 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted Chief Warrant Officer Khalid al-Sutuf and police officer Ayman al-Jad‘an on the road between the villages of Turaymisah and Kafr Hud. 69. At 0800 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on civilian Ali Muhammad al-Husayn as he was heading to work in the Tayyibat al-Imam city council. 70. At 0830 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked the village of Aziziyah in the Ghab area and opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the village, injuring an officer. 71. At 0945 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device as a law enforcement patrol was passing near the farmers’ union petrol station, injuring Chief Warrant Officer Umar Yahya and four other men. 72. At 1040, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device as Colonel Jabir Duba was travelling in his vehicle on the Muhradah–Suqaylibiyah–Hayyalin road. 73. At 1300 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on civilian Manal Abdu as she was standing in front of her husband’s home in the village of Huwayz. 74. At 1330 hours, an armed terrorist group in the Ba‘ath quarter seized a Mazda double-cabin pickup truck, licence plate No. 951545, belonging to Mihlajat al-Assi. 75. At 1345 hours, an armed terrorist group planted an explosive device in a rubbish dump in the village of Kassun al-Jabal. 76. At 1645 hours, an armed terrorist group seized a Nissan vehicle, licence plate No. 535172, belonging to the Government and allocated to civil servant Muwaffaq al-Baghdadi in front of the Amin bakery in Hama city. 77. At 1730 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device in the Suq al-Shajarah quarter, killing the child Abdulqadir Bassam Shamiyah. 78. At 0330 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the financial office of the law enforcement forces, injuring an officer.

Aleppo governorate

79. At 1030 hours, an armed terrorist group stole a Scania truck belonging to the General Company for Water Projects and abducted its driver near the Iskan factory in the village of Hayyan. 80. An armed terrorist group killed the engineer Abdulrazzaq Bulad next to Town Mall in . 81. An armed terrorist group opened fire on Umar al-Shihabi in the town of Suran. 82. An armed terrorist group planted an explosive device near Masakin Hannanu.

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Idlib governorate

83. At 2030 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device on the Badama-Yunisiyah road in the Jisr al-Shughur area and damaged the railway. 84. At 2330 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel at the Ma‘arr Ballit turn-off on the - highway, injuring an officer. 85. At 0630 hours, an armed terrorist group planted four explosive devices at Safiyat on the Badama-Yunisiyah road. 86. At 0700 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device near the Masibayn-Ariha turn-off. 87. At 0800 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device and opened fire on a provisions vehicle belonging to the law enforcement forces as it was passing on the sugar factory–Kufayr–Jisr al-Shughur road, injuring an officer. 88. At 0830 hours, an armed terrorist group stopped the civilian Imadaldin al-Ahmad near Khan al-Subul as he was driving an ambulance, licence plate No. 520921, belonging to the Hama Health Directorate. 89. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group planted three explosive devices at the Kurin turn-off on the Ariha-Ladhiqiyah road. 90. At 1200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on guards stationed at the railway bridge in Qatrun, 3 km north of Jisr al-Shughur. 91. At 1330 hours, an armed terrorist group planted three explosive devices at the Kafr Najd turn-off on the Ariha-Ladhiqiyah road. 92. At 1730 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire with sniper rifles on law enforcement personnel at a checkpoint in Ariha, injuring an officer.

Dayr al-Zawr governorate

93. At 0900 hours, an armed terrorist group planted an armed explosive device near the vocational secondary school. 94. At 1200 hours, the body of an unidentified young man riddled with some 16 bullet wounds was discovered. 95. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group set up a roadblock on the Dayr al-Zawr-Busayrah road and stopped and searched passing vehicles. 96. At 2100 hours, an armed terrorist group planted an 8-kg explosive device in the Sina‘ah area. 97. At 2200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement post in . 98. At 2215 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the Civil Defence Directorate building in Dayr al-Zawr. 99. At 2300 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the outer-city police department in Dayr al-Zawr.

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100. At 0130 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement post in Abu Kamal. 101. At 0430 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the village of Dhiban, Hayjat, in , killing officer Khalid Ubayd al-Sakran. 102. At 0715 hours, an armed terrorist group shot and killed civilian Salim Ahmad Salim, a street cleaner, in the Hamidiyah quarter. 103. At 1135 hours, an armed terrorist group set up a roadblock at Jalib in the locality of Sur. They attacked a police officer’s vehicle, shattered its windows and stole the officer’s pistol. 104. At 1730 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a member of the executive bureau of Dayr al-Zawr governorate, killing him and injuring another civilian. 105. At 0600 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement patrol, killing an officer.

Ladhiqiyah governorate

106. At 1945 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement patrol in the village of Salma in Haffah.

Syrian-Lebanese border

107. At 0330 hours, an armed terrorist group launched an attack from Lebanese territory, opening fire on post No. 64 in Ribani of the Tall Kalakh border patrol. 108. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to smuggle arms into Syrian territory from Lebanese territory in the region of Assal al-Ward in Jubbah.

Syrian-Turkish border

109. At 1215 hours, an armed terrorist attempted to infiltrate Syrian territory from Turkish territory in the region of Jisr al-Shughur.

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Number of attacks and violations committed by armed terrorist groups on 13 May 2012

1 2 3 4 5

Firing of weapons by Killed Wounded Abducted armed persons against Explosive devices

Law Law Law Law enforcement enforcement enforcement enforcement Exploded in Civilians officers Civilians officers Civilians officers Civilians officers Exploded Defused manufacturing

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6 7 8 9

Attempted infiltration by armed Attacks against public Theft of vehicles persons and smuggling of weapons and private property Bodies discovered

Law enforcement Public Private Lebanon Turkey Iraq Jordan Public Private Brigandry Civilians officers

3 — 1 — 1 — 1 4 1 1 —

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