Geneva: Syria A decade after the conflict began, refugees are still vulnerable to return, UN war crimes investigators said on Tuesday, documenting rights violations including worsening violence and arbitrary detention by government forces.
NS United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria Given hostilities in many regions of the fragmented country, its crumbling economy, drying up of rivers and increasing attacks by Islamic State militants, the overall situation was increasingly bleak.
“Over a decade, the parties to the conflict continue to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity and violate the basic human rights of the Syrian people,” said the commission’s chairman, paulo pinheiro while releasing its 24th report.
“The war on Syrian civilians continues, and it is difficult for them to find safety or a safe haven in this war-torn country.”
The report said that incidents of arbitrary and uninformed detentions by government forces continued.
“The commission continues to document not only custodial torture and sexual violence but also custodial deaths and forced disappearances,” a press release said.
war that resulted from a rebellion against the president Bashar Al AssadThe U.S. regime triggered the world’s largest refugee crisis. Syria’s neighbors host 5.6 million refugees, while European countries are hosting more than a million refugees.
Refugees in some countries have faced pressure to return.
While Assad has recaptured most of Syria, important areas remain outside his control: Turkish forces are stationed in much of the north and northwest – the last major stronghold of anti-Assad rebels – and US forces in the Kurdish-controlled East. and are stationed in the North-East. .
commissioner hannie megaly Said said there had been a return to “siege and siege-like tactics” in southwestern Syria – an area where Russian-backed government forces launched a campaign to eliminate rebel-held pockets in the city of Dera.
Covering the year to the end of June, the report also noted increased hostilities in the northwest, adding that markets, residential areas and medical facilities were hit by air and ground, “often indiscriminately.” , causing many civilian casualties”.
At least 243 people were killed or maimed in seven car bomb attacks in the rebel-held towns of Afrin and Kay. Ras al-Aini North of Aleppo, though the absolute toll was much higher, it said.
The report criticized the controlling Islamist group idlib, Hayat Tahrir Al-ShamTo ban the media and freedom of expression, saying it had arbitrarily detained journalists, including media workers and women.
It also criticized the illegal detention of thousands of women and children held on suspicion of links to Islamic State in camps in areas controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, saying they had no legal recourse.
They were “left to defend themselves in the face of cruel or inhuman treatment”.
NS United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria Given hostilities in many regions of the fragmented country, its crumbling economy, drying up of rivers and increasing attacks by Islamic State militants, the overall situation was increasingly bleak.
“Over a decade, the parties to the conflict continue to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity and violate the basic human rights of the Syrian people,” said the commission’s chairman, paulo pinheiro while releasing its 24th report.
“The war on Syrian civilians continues, and it is difficult for them to find safety or a safe haven in this war-torn country.”
The report said that incidents of arbitrary and uninformed detentions by government forces continued.
“The commission continues to document not only custodial torture and sexual violence but also custodial deaths and forced disappearances,” a press release said.
war that resulted from a rebellion against the president Bashar Al AssadThe U.S. regime triggered the world’s largest refugee crisis. Syria’s neighbors host 5.6 million refugees, while European countries are hosting more than a million refugees.
Refugees in some countries have faced pressure to return.
While Assad has recaptured most of Syria, important areas remain outside his control: Turkish forces are stationed in much of the north and northwest – the last major stronghold of anti-Assad rebels – and US forces in the Kurdish-controlled East. and are stationed in the North-East. .
commissioner hannie megaly Said said there had been a return to “siege and siege-like tactics” in southwestern Syria – an area where Russian-backed government forces launched a campaign to eliminate rebel-held pockets in the city of Dera.
Covering the year to the end of June, the report also noted increased hostilities in the northwest, adding that markets, residential areas and medical facilities were hit by air and ground, “often indiscriminately.” , causing many civilian casualties”.
At least 243 people were killed or maimed in seven car bomb attacks in the rebel-held towns of Afrin and Kay. Ras al-Aini North of Aleppo, though the absolute toll was much higher, it said.
The report criticized the controlling Islamist group idlib, Hayat Tahrir Al-ShamTo ban the media and freedom of expression, saying it had arbitrarily detained journalists, including media workers and women.
It also criticized the illegal detention of thousands of women and children held on suspicion of links to Islamic State in camps in areas controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, saying they had no legal recourse.
They were “left to defend themselves in the face of cruel or inhuman treatment”.
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