Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Response Adviser, who returned from a visit to Aleppo last month, said: Aleppo has been utterly devastated, many of its residents fleeing the bombardments in huge numbers and many others trapped in a city under fire and under siege in desperate humanitarian conditions".
Two thousand are buried in Belgium and northern France, killed in bombardments and air raids or by disease.
The naval exercises planned for this weekend aim to deter it from using further bombardments to make that point.Narushige Michishita, a security expert in Tokyo, takes the first scenario further.
Two thousand are buried in Belgium and northern France, killed in bombardments, air raids or of disease.
Since, by most appearances, civilians were not being deliberately targeted, some normal life began to resume.Even during bombardments, Baghdad's British-style red double-decker buses have continued to trundle around town and, during the day, traffic has moved along the roads.
Rather than deploying military bombardments against them, the new bands must be fought "with intelligence, like other criminal organisations," Mr Santos says.
And there is mounting evidence, including testimony from those who escaped it, to suggest that army bombardments were mostly to blame for this.
Pedro Antonio Marín, better known by the noms de guerre of Manuel Marulanda or "Tirofijo" ("Sureshot"), led his FARC guerrillas through army bombardments, bogus ceasefires and failed peace talks, never giving up his quixotic and destructive campaign to turn a large South American democracy into a clone of the long-vanished Soviet Union.
And she said General Ríos Montt, knew what was going on in the villages where the massacres and bombardments were taking place, and didn't order a halt to them.
Army chiefs believe that he might have expired as a result of their bombardments.
Some 20,000 soldiers, the air force's entire fleet of helicopters and intense bombardments failed to destroy a community of fewer than 1,000.
