United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Friday said Aleppo is a "slaughterhouse" where Russian and Syrian airstrikes constitute war crimes of "historic proportions."
At least 300,000 Syrians have died in the half-decade Syrian civil war, Hussein said, adding that he and his human rights staff have "documented violations of international humanitarian law by all parties in Aleppo," which includes Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and anti-Assad rebels. The Islamic State has not played a major role in Aleppo but has carried out attacks.
"The ancient city of Aleppo, a place of millennial civility and beauty, is today a slaughterhouse -- a gruesome locus of pain and fear, where the lifeless bodies of small children are trapped under streets of rubble and pregnant women deliberately bombed," Hussein wrote in a statement.
"The collective failure of the international community to protect civilians and halt this bloodshed should haunt every one of us. Not only does it violate every norm of human rights, to our dishonor; its costs will be borne by our children, and future generations."
[upi.com]
21/10/16
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At least 300,000 Syrians have died in the half-decade Syrian civil war, Hussein said, adding that he and his human rights staff have "documented violations of international humanitarian law by all parties in Aleppo," which includes Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and anti-Assad rebels. The Islamic State has not played a major role in Aleppo but has carried out attacks.
"The ancient city of Aleppo, a place of millennial civility and beauty, is today a slaughterhouse -- a gruesome locus of pain and fear, where the lifeless bodies of small children are trapped under streets of rubble and pregnant women deliberately bombed," Hussein wrote in a statement.
"The collective failure of the international community to protect civilians and halt this bloodshed should haunt every one of us. Not only does it violate every norm of human rights, to our dishonor; its costs will be borne by our children, and future generations."
[upi.com]
21/10/16
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