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SYRIAN GOVERNMENT IS ‘EXTERMINATING’ ITS DETAINEES: U.N.
BY LUCY WESTCOTT ON 2/8/16 AT 12:50 PM
The Syrian government is "exterminating" its detainees, according to a new report from the United Nations. Residents inspect damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in the rebel-held Al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, February 4.ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL/REUTERS
WORLDSYRIABASHAR AL-ASSADTORTURE
The Syrian government is carrying out “massive and systematized violence” against its citizens and the treatment of its detainees amounts to “extermination,” the United Nations charges in a new report.
The U.N.’s commission of inquiry on Syria, which monitors the dire human rights situation in the country, in the report accuses the government of President Bashar al-Assad of killing detainees in “official and makeshift detention centers” that are “out of sight, far from the battlefield.” The detainees have died from beatings, torture and inhuman living conditions, and were subjected to “crimes against humanity,” including rape and sexual violence, imprisonment and forced disappearance, the report says. Detainees also received threats of sexual violence toward their female relatives.
Women, children and the elderly are among the detainees who have died in government custody, including a boy as young as 7, according to the report. Horrifying details of torture are included in the report, including the use of cigarette burns and genital mutilation against detainees by government forces. “Multiple government agencies,” including the Syrian Military Police, are involved in the detention and abuse of prisoners, the U.N. says.
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The U.N. says the Syrian government is ‘exterminating’ its detainees
SYRIAN GOVERNMENT IS ‘EXTERMINATING’ ITS DETAINEES: U.N.
BY LUCY WESTCOTT ON 2/8/16 AT 12:50 PM
The Syrian government is "exterminating" its detainees, according to a new report from the United Nations. Residents inspect damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in the rebel-held Al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, February 4.ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL/REUTERS
WORLDSYRIABASHAR AL-ASSADTORTURE
The Syrian government is carrying out “massive and systematized violence” against its citizens and the treatment of its detainees amounts to “extermination,” the United Nations charges in a new report.
The U.N.’s commission of inquiry on Syria, which monitors the dire human rights situation in the country, in the report accuses the government of President Bashar al-Assad of killing detainees in “official and makeshift detention centers” that are “out of sight, far from the battlefield.” The detainees have died from beatings, torture and inhuman living conditions, and were subjected to “crimes against humanity,” including rape and sexual violence, imprisonment and forced disappearance, the report says. Detainees also received threats of sexual violence toward their female relatives.
Women, children and the elderly are among the detainees who have died in government custody, including a boy as young as 7, according to the report. Horrifying details of torture are included in the report, including the use of cigarette burns and genital mutilation against detainees by government forces. “Multiple government agencies,” including the Syrian Military Police, are involved in the detention and abuse of prisoners, the U.N. says.
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The U.N. says the Syrian government is ‘exterminating’ its detainees
