United Nations S/2012/323

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 and 14 May, I have the honour to transmit herewith a detailed list of violations of cessation of violence committed by armed groups in on 11 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

[Original: Arabic]

Friday, 11 May 2012

1. At 0000 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to block the - highway at the Yabrud turn-off at Dillat al-Khayr. A law enforcement patrol intervened and opened the road. 2. At 0001 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device by the park between Furn al-Sayyad and Muqabir. 3. At 0130 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in , near the Amiri mosque, injuring one man. 4. At 0530 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint in . Five armed men were arrested. 5. At 0730 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint in Ghutah, injuring one man. 6. At 1400 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint at the Kawkab turn-off in Artuz. 7. At 1400 hours, an armed terrorist group placed a 55-kg explosive device in the farm belonging to Abu Mahmud Dam`a in Qatana. It was defused by sappers. 8. At 2000 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted and killed officer Yusif Satifi. 9. At 2045 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint in Irbin, injuring one man. 10. At 2350 hours, an armed terrorist group stormed and wrecked the Sayf al- Dawlah boys and girls school, and opened fire from there on a law enforcement checkpoint in Hujayriyah-Duma. 11. At 2350 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to hijack a car on the Damascus-Homs road, and opened fire, injuring the driver of the vehicle. The group was pursued and one of its members was killed.

Damascus governorate

12. An armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device as a law enforcement patrol was passing through the Maydan-Abu Habl quarter, injuring many of the patrol members and 11 civilians.

Dar`a governorate

13. At 0100 hours, an armed terrorist group in a vehicle on which a machine gun was mounted stormed and wrecked the house of First Warrant Officer Muhammad

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Jadallah al-Salkhadi in the village of Nu`aymah. They then proceeded to the home of his wife’s family in search of him, put restraints on his father-in-law, and threatened to kill the family and burn down the house if they did not surrender the Officer to them. 14. At 0115 hours, an armed terrorist group stabbed and injured Conscript Mahmud Tuqan as he was performing a task near his unit. 15. At 0500 hours, after the United Nations delegation had left, an armed terrorist group launched rocket-propelled grenades in the Arba`in quarter, injuring four civilians. 16. At 1530 hours, an armed terrorist group adducted Warrant Officer Muhammad Hamdi al-Yunis as he was riding his motorcycle in his home town of Mahjah. 17. At 1730 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked First Warrant Officer Muhammad Ahmad Surur as he was riding his motorcycle in his home town of Mahjah. He was bruised and injured. 18. At 2230 hours, three armed men threw two Molotov cocktails at the military police station in Shaykh Miskin. 19. At 2245 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted a civilian, Muhammad Qasim al-Haraki, from his home in Malihah al-Gharbiyah. 20. At 2320 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint near the Amiri mosque in Inkhil. 21. At 2330 hours, an armed terrorist group stormed into the Kafr Shams school and wreaked havoc on everything in it, causing material damage.

Homs governorate

22. At 0000 hours, from the direction of Khalidiyah, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the Qusur quarter with rocket- propelled grenades and mortars. 23. At 0000 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel near the Ba`ath school in the village of Jawbar. 24. At 0200 hours an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel near the Tadmur roundabout. 25. At 0200 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated explosive devices and the sound of powerful explosions was heard in the vicinity of Cairo Street. 26. At 0215 hours, an armed terrorist group opened heavy fire from the direction of Bab al-Turkman on law enforcement personnel near the citadel. 27. At 0710 hours, an armed terrorist group fired an incendiary device at law enforcement personnel in the vicinity of the outer-city police department building. 28. At 0720 hours, at the village of Ayn al-Nusur on the Homs-Mukharram road, an armed terrorist group ambushed a civilian vehicle that was carrying personnel from the Military College, killing Staff Sergeant Khudr al-Uqda, Sergeants Ali al-Mansur and Adnan Khasiki and Police Officer Muhammad Dumani and injuring another person.

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29. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group fired rocket-propelled grenades at law enforcement personnel in the Khalidiyah quarter. 30. At 1015 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the Qarabis quarter. 31. At 1530 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel near the Cairo roundabout. 32. At 1600 hours, an armed terrorist group fired incendiary devices at law enforcement personnel in the Khalidiyah quarter. 33. At 1605 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the Khalidiyah quarter, wounding three men. 34. At 1630 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the Qusur quarter, injuring one man. 35. At 1800 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on and launched rocket- propelled grenades at law enforcement personnel in Rastan. 36. At 1910 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of Khalidiyah and Qusur on law enforcement personnel in the Qusur quarter. 37. At 1925 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel near the oil pipeline in Sultaniyah. 38. At 1935 hours, an armed terrorist group fired an armour-piercing shell at law enforcement personnel in the Khalidiyah quarter. 39. At 2030 hours, an armed terrorist group opened heavy fire from the direction of Khalidiyah on law enforcement personnel in the Qusur quarter. 40. At 2100 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from the direction of Qusur on law enforcement personnel near the dye company and the outer-city police, injuring one man. 41. At 2130 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on and injured a civilian, Ribah al-Ahmad, in Suq al-Hal.

Hama governorate

42. At 0030 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint near the Majd petrol station north of Suran. 43. At 0115 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the law enforcement forces position in Suran. 44. At 0300 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked a branch of the water projects company. They incarcerated the guard in a room and stole four vehicles with the following licence plate Nos.: 936722, 941105, 932125 and 932298. 45. At 0300 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on and injured First Warrant Officer Rami al-Abdulla as he was passing through the town of Khattab. 46. At 0300 hours, an armed terrorist group opened close to the homes of the Ubaydu family in Salmiyah and set fire to the car belonging to Ali Ubaydu.

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47. At 0700 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement forces patrol in Qumhanah, killing a civilian, Radwan al-Omar. 48. At 1100 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire at the Sanbada turn-off on the Salmiyah-Homs road on a Subaru lorry that was being driven by a civilian, Hussam Habib, causing material damage to the lorry. 49. At 1250 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement patrol that was moving between Tayyibat al-Imam and Masasinah, injuring two men. 50. At 1415 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement patrol in the village of Mab`ujah, killing a civilian, Muayyad Abdulrahman Sa`ud. 51. At 1530 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device and opened fire on the personnel at the Nimr position in Jusiyah. Four men were slightly injured and the position was destroyed. A Chevrolet pick-up allocated to the border guard was also damaged. 52. At 1730 hours, between the villages of and Shaghurit, an armed terrorist group opened fire on and killed a civilian, Muhammad al-Rihawi. 53. At 1800 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted a civilian, Abdulrazzaq Ali Abadi, who is a teacher in Suran, from in front of his home in Murak. 54. At 1930 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from between residential buildings towards law enforcement personnel near the Nasih Alwani school. 55. At 1930 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted a civilian, Ra'id Abdulwahab al-Baghdadi from the shop where he sold birds in Abi al-Fida'. 56. At 2100 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted a civilian, Muhammad Abdu al-Dali, from in front of his home in Murak. 57. At 2150 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted a civilian, Ahmad al-Al`ash, from in front of his home in the Junub al-Mal`ab quarter. They also took his Chevrolet pick-up. 58. At 2200 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted a civilian, Anwar Abdulmajid Habra.

Aleppo governorate

59. At 0020 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement patrol in Hamdaniyah, killing Sergeant Iyyad Adra and a civilian, Rajih al-Ibrahim, and injuring five men. 60. At 1100 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device in Hannanu, injuring the terrorists themselves and the driver of their car. 61. At 1230 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device in Firdaus, damaging police vehicles. 62. At 1230 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated two explosive devices. The first had been placed in a rubbish bin near Tal`at al-Ansari and the second was in the middle of the road, near the Mashhad traffic lights in Salah al-Din. The group also opened fire on police and law enforcement patrols in the same area, injuring

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Lieutenant Ahmad Dib and four other policemen from Sukkari and damaging vehicles. 63. At 2030 hours, an armed terrorist group blocked the road and stole a vehicle which had been allocated to an engineer, Abdulkarim al-Ali.

Idlib governorate

64. At 0000 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement checkpoints in Ma`arrat al-Nu`man and in the vicinity of the Madajin turn-off. 65. At 0430 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on law enforcement personnel in the village of Kafr Rumah. 66. At 0500 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device on the Hamidiyah-Kafr Rumah road. 67. At 0500 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint in al-Magharah al-Gharbiyah. 68. At 1100 hours, an armed terrorist group placed two explosive devices near the Shu`ayb mosque in . They were defused by sappers. 69. At 1100 hours, an armed terrorist group placed six explosive devices on the Muhanbal-Hila road. They were defused by sappers. 70. At 1200 hours, as a law enforcement patrol was passing, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device at the Musbin turn-off on the -Saraqib road. 71. At 1200 hours, on the western outskirts of Ariha, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device and opened heavy fire on a law enforcement patrol that was moving along the Ladhiqiyah- road, killing Conscript Fadi Zakariya Ufuf and injuring six men. 72. At 1315 hours, an armed terrorist group abducted Colonel Mahmud al-Helu as he was leaving his place of work on the Ariha road. They demanded that his wife pay a ransom of 2 million Syrian pounds for his release. 73. At 1400 hours, an armed terrorist group placed six explosive devices in the Almathah Khalil park in the city of Idlib. They were defused by sappers. 74. At 1500 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on Captain Tamir al-Ali as he was driving his personal vehicle along the Kafr `Uwayd-Anqawi road. The incident took place at Halawiyah. 75. At 1600 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint in Ma`arrat al-Nu`man. 76. At 1800 hours, as a terrorist was preparing an explosive device that he intended to place near one of the law enforcement checkpoints in Jabal al-Zawiyah, it exploded, injuring his right hand. 77. At 2115 hours, in the Ma`arrah region, an armed terrorist group abducted Corporal Diya' Jamal Shu`ayb. 78. At 2125 hours, in the Ma`arrat al-Nu`man area, an armed terrorist group abducted Conscript Ibad Abdu Jaru.

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79. At 2220 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to detonate four explosive devices on the Dayr Sunbul-Dalluzah road. The attempt was frustrated by law enforcement personnel.

Dayr al-Zawr governorate

80. At 0430 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked a military barracks in Dayr al-Zawr, killing Sergeant Wa'il al-Qadiri and Corporal Asad al-Mahmud. Five men went missing, with their arms. 81. At 0930 hours, an armed terrorist group stole a Government vehicle, a double- cabin Mazda pick-up, licence plate No. 538880, that was allocated to the agricultural directorate in Hajin, . 82. At 1200 hours, an armed terrorist group stole a Government vehicle, a double- cabin Mazda pick-up, licence plate No. 538872, that was allocated to the agricultural directorate in the village of Ayyash. 83. At 1230 hours, an armed terrorist group stole two Government vehicles. The first, which was taken from Mayadain, was a Nissan ambulance, No. 8504, and the second, a Nissan bus, No. 995030, allocated to the oil company at the Ward field. 84. At 1300 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device on the oil pipeline that runs between the Hawari and Omar fields in Badiyah al-Sujar, Busayrah. There was a fire at the place of the explosion and 200 barrels of oil were lost. 85. At 1300 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on and killed a civilian, Fatima al-Hasan, the head teacher at the vocational school and wife of a retired officer, as she was in the vicinity of the bus station. 86. At 1330 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on and threw explosives and sticks of dynamite at the outer-city police station, causing material damage to the building. 87. At 1530 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the Hajin branch recruiting office. They then stormed it and stole weapons. Conscript Muhannad al-Wahhab was abducted and four rifles were stolen from guards. 88. At 1900 hours, an armed terrorist group detonated an explosive device at the Abu Kamal police station, injuring two policemen. 89. At 2200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a military barracks in Quriyah, using all types of weapons. 90. At 2300 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on the Khisham area. 91. At 2300 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire on a law enforcement checkpoint in Suwayi`ah, Abu Kamal.

Hasakah governorate

92. At 0100 hours, an armed terrorist group attacked a military barracks in the Ra's al-Ayn area, injuring two men.

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Ladhiqiyah governorate

93. At 0600 hours, an armed terrorist group stormed the home of a civilian, Mustapha Aws, in the village of Ayn Ghazl, Marj al-Zawiyah, Kinnsibba, Haffah, and abducted his son, Conscript Muhammad Mustapha Aws.

Syrian-Lebanese border

94. At 1000 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to infiltrate into Syrian territory from Lebanese territory and fired on personnel at the Third Brigade post in Fadiliyah. There was a clash, and the armed men fled. 95. At 2200 hours, an armed terrorist group opened fire from Lebanese territory on a Second Brigade post.

Syrian-Turkish border

96. At 2215 hours, two armed groups attempted to infiltrate from Turkish territory into Syrian territory in Wadi Hassaniyah, inside the No. 70 position sector. There was a clash, and the armed men fled.

Syrian-Iraqi border

97. At 0100 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to infiltrate into Syrian territory from Iraqi territory and fired on personnel at the Second Brigade post in Tuwaymin. There was a clash, and the armed men fled. 98. At 1230 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to infiltrate into Syrian territory from Iraqi territory and fired on Shu`ayb al-Bawaridi post, No. 77, in Shaddadah. There was a clash, and the armed men fled. 99. At 2200 hours, an armed terrorist group attempted to infiltrate into Syrian territory from Iraqi territory and fired on personnel at the Fourth Brigade post in Shaddadah. There was a clash, and the armed men fled.

Number of attacks and violations committed by armed terrorist groups on 11 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

5 10 15 35 9 12 3 45 14 19 2

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 Turkey Iraq Public Private Brigandry Civilians officers

9 2 2 1 3 — 4 3 2 — —

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