“Some Russian air strikes appear to have directly attacked civilians or civilian objects by striking residential areas with no evident military target”, said Philip Luther, director of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
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The report released December 23 by the British-based rights group focused on six attacks in September, October, and November that hit sites in the Syrian cities of Homs, Idlib, and Aleppo.
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Of those killed, 598 were fighters from the Islamic State group and another 824 from Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian affiliate of Al-Qaeda, and other rebel groups.
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The airstrikes included attacks on homes, a market, a mosque and field hospital, which Amnesty said the Russian government may have tried to deliberately cover up.
It has repeatedly and forcefully denied targeting civilians, saying it takes great care to avoid bombing residential areas.
Russia’s bombing of Syria may quantity to a war crime as a result of of the quantity of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International stated on Wednesday, presenting what it stated was proof that the air raids had violated humanitarian regulation.
The report comes shortly after a similar Human Rights Watch report that slammed Russian Federation and Syria for their indiscriminate use of cluster bombs in Syria.
The Russian authorities have claimed that their armed forces are only striking “terrorist” targets.
The strikes it examined were carried out in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Idlib and Latakia.
David Cenciotti, who runs The Aviationist website, said Russia’s Su-24 and 25 bombers have made “significant use of unguided fragmentation bombs…”
It had interviewed “by phone or over the internet” witnesses to the attacks, and had audio and video evidence, as well as “advice from weapons experts”.
It added that testimony by witnesses and research by human rights activists had shown that “there were no military targets in the vicinity”. The Russian authorities have not yet commented on the accusations in the report.
Russia’s air campaign comes as a US-led coalition continues its own air strikes against IS targets in Syria.
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When asked Monday about allegations that Russia is using cluster bombs, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian military in Syria operates in line with worldwide law.
