A/HRC/18/53 events started after the detention of a group of children, this is one of the contradictions repeatedly appeared in the High Commission report. The event took place before armed terrorist groups have grasped the occasion of Daraa’s people’s spontaneous movement to attack civilians and armed forces with fire arms, in addition to the fact that, many of Daraa’s sons occupy high governmental positions. We are pleased to present evidence of the facts we advance at the demand of the High Commission. • The term “Shabbiha”, made use of in the report, is an expression created and exploited by terrorist groups and some biased media; they propagated the expression in their press reports with the intention to create discord among the different segments of the Syrian society. Due to security vacuum, terrorist groups succeeded in taking over some areas, yet, unarmed citizens were able to organize themselves in people’s committees, defending private and public properties against criminals. • The number of martyrs is truly 1900, but not all of them are civilians; armed forces and police agents make up the largest part of victims of terrorist groups. • Concerning the city of Hama, the Syrian army did not occupy the city; it is the national Syrian army, not some foreign army! What it did was to cooperate with security forces to rid the city from armed groups, extremists and terrorists who turned Hama into a ghost city by terrorizing its citizens, and pushing them to flee the city in fear for their lives. Citizens of Hama were relieved to see that the army took control over, and returned calm and normality to their city. The same thing happened in several other towns where terrorist groups tried to maintain a state of horror. The government chose to make use of its armed forces for lack of specialized police forces capable of dealing with riots, rebellion and terrorism; the army did not use heavy weaponry to harm civilians, but rather to protect itself from armed terrorist groups. • The report has also mentioned 30 dead, and 200 wounded when reporting events at Jissr Al Shughur, ignoring the reality, which is the number of victims in the area had reached 120 among members of the security forces, who were brutally murdered and tossed in mass graves later discovered -when some terrorists were arrested- in the presence of a number of diplomats and foreign press representatives. • There was no arrest of peaceful demonstrators. Detainees among demonstrators are released, contrary to the law, within five days of their arrest, if there are any peaceful demonstrators among our detainees, please send us their names. Accusing authorities of torture is exaggerated and utterly untrue, only 12 cases of that kind are presented to courts, they are all mentioned in our earlier response to the High Commission. • There were no orders to fire on peaceful protestors, if anything; orders were given not to carry weapons, while accompanying peaceful demonstrations. • No heavy weaponry or helicopters were used while facing armed terrorist groups. All what the report included in relation to this fact is misleading, contrary to the truth, and clearly intended to discredit Syria, and to harass the state for obvious political reasons known to everybody. • The Syrian government is seriously determined to oppose to torture used against Syrian citizen. A special judicial commission of inquiry is taking direct measures to bring to justice individuals who are found guilty with violating human rights, or who were involved in murdering civilians and armed forces. 110