Following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the opening of prisons and detention centers, Syrians are increasingly demanding that those responsible for the atrocities and killings committed during his rule be brought to justice.
The UN organization said the new Syrian authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during its recent visit to Damascus. A UN investigative team is preparing to assign a mission to the region. This was reported by the Associated Press on Tuesday, December 24.
The visit to Damascus, led by Robert Petit, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria, was the first since the organization was created by the UN General Assembly in 2016.
The mechanism was created to help gather evidence and bring to justice those responsible for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide since Syria’s civil war broke out in 2011.
Petit emphasized the importance of preserving documents and other evidence before they are lost.
Since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the opening of rebel prisons and detention centers, Syrians have increasingly demanded that those responsible for the atrocities and killings committed during his rule be brought to justice. .
The organization’s spokesperson told the agency that they are preparing to deploy to Syria.
We remind you that human rights activists discovered a mass grave near Damascus. There, they counted at least 100 thousand people who died during the reign of the country’s former president Bashar al-Assad.
We added that the Russian military presence in Syria needs to be reviewed, said Obeida Arnaout, a representative of the republic’s transitional government.
Source: korrespondent
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