Sally, et al,
I have been reading these reports for about a year. I'm not impressed with them, but then, I'm not there and must temper my criticism.
You just linked me to Al Jazeera for this special report. Do you understand that Qatar owns AJ and that Qatar has been trying to overthrow Assad for years.
There is no civil war. Never was. Just a plan devised to overthrow Assad and hand over the state to the Muslim Brotherhood.
You just linked me to Al Jazeera for this special report. Do you understand that Qatar owns AJ and that Qatar has been trying to overthrow Assad for years.
There is no civil war. Never was. Just a plan devised to overthrow Assad and hand over the state to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Did you ever think to Google to see what other media were reporting on the UN report?
(OBSERVARTION)
A/HRC/31/CRP.1
Human Rights Council
Thirty-first session
Agenda item 4
• Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
(COMMENT)
What you should keep in mind is that these HUMAN RIGHTS activist and HUMANITARIAN advisors generally have a tendency to over dramatize their finds to the point that their narrative is hard to judge in terms of magnitude. In this case, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic (IICI-SAR) is a ancillary element of the UN Human Rights - Officer of the High Commissioner.
In this report they accuse all the opposing parties with committing the crimes against humanity of extermination, murder, rape or other forms of sexual violence, torture, imprisonment, mass executions, and committing war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, and torture. All this by government forces, anti-government forces, Jabhat Al-Nusra, and --- of course --- DAESH. While there is probably some truth in these observations, I no longer consider the Human Rights and Humanitarian activities as anything other than immature open-source collection of tabloid quality. While from the report, we gleen no real sense of the magnitude of the types and kinds of violations, it is reasonable to assume the the UN has witness statements that recount DAESH and Al-Sham, holding a large an unknown number of detainees for extended periods
(various locations reported but unconfirmed), using torture techniques and conducting summary executions.
Having said that, these very same Human Rights and Humanitarian activities, as well as other Arab external observers, use this same language in describing the Israelis. This reduces the credibility of the overall report. The viability of the report rest in the Recommendation § X for which it lists a whole series of actions that will not be considered by any of the Arab Parties to the conflict.
While I have often recommended that Report, Inquiries, Observations and Inquiries that I don't necessarily agree with should be read for consideration, I see absolutely no redeeming qualities in this report.
Most Respectfully,
R