Reuters: Mass deaths in Syrian jails amount to crime of "extermination" - UN
Detainees held by the Syrian government are being killed on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said on Monday.
The U.N. commission of inquiry called on the Security Council to impose "targeted sanctions" on high-ranking Syrian civilian and military officials responsible for or complicit in deaths, torture and disappearances in custody, but stopped short of naming the suspects.
The independent experts said they had also documented mass executions and torture of prisoners by two jihadi groups, the Nusra Front and Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. These constituted war crimes and in the case of Islamic State also crimes against humanity, it said.
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1 comment:
You have to be as determined and/or vicious as your enemies.
In the Lebanese Civil War viciousness ensured further torture.
In WW2 the Luftwaffe was afraid what the allies might due to Luftwaffe POWs. As a result they went head to head with the Gestapo.
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