The initial report of the judicial committee investigating the horrible massacre which killed more than one hundred people in the Syrian city of Houla, affirmed that the belonged to peaceful families who wouldn’t stand up to the s

The initial report of the judicial committee investigating the horrible massacre which killed more than one hundred people in the Syrian city of Houla, affirmed that the belonged to peaceful families who wouldn't stand up to the state.

“Victims belonged to peaceful families who wouldn't stand up to the state and had never joined protests or held up arms, who also had opposed the armed terrorist groups,” State news agency SANA reported, adding that initial findings indicated that the victims were killed by fire at close distance and sharp tools, not by shellfire.

The report also said that the armed groups “who gathered in al-Houla liquidated the victims in the process of an attack on the law-enforcement members who hadn't entered the area where the massacre occurred.”

During a press conference at the Syrian foreign ministry, Brigadier General Qassem Jamal Suleiman said on Thursday that the investigation was in its initial stages and was still underway.

He added that the investigation committee depended on testimonies of eyewitnesses who saw the massacre happen that can be directly verified, adding that some of them will appear on TVs, indicating that the initial report was based on evidences and facts in relation to the armed attack that targeted the law-enforcement members in the town.