Posted on 06/08/2013 4:29:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The United Nations has evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is directly orchestrating atrocities against his opponents, Navi Pillay, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told The Daily Telegraph on Friday.
The evidence paves the way for a war crime trial if he is ever handed over to face international justice, she said.
Assad was deeply implicated in the growing toll of atrocities in Syria, Pillay told the newspaper, warning that he must not be permitted to “trade justice for peace” in any future negotiations.
Investigators working for the UN teams, including a specialist commission of inquiry to track fighting in Syria, had no doubt that Assad was personally involved in orders issued to the army, and controlled its vicious sectarian allies, the Shabiha militias, she said.
“I am assured on the basis of the evidence my officers have gathered … that the evidence implicates him by the actions of his subordinates,” she told the Telegraph. “It points to commissions of atrocities and human rights violations by his soldiers, his forces and Shabiha. He is very much the commander-in-chief and these are his forces. The evidence points to and implicates him in that way.”
Reports on Assad’s role have been drawn from inside the regime, from survivors’ accounts and from intelligence handed to the UN from outside the country, the Telegraph reported.
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Just so. Frankly,
I’m amazed that Obama has done the right thing and kept out of it, except for funneling in weapons, but maybe even Obama knows better than to get HIMSELF involved in that mess.
And he can’t get our country involved in it without involving himself. Let’s just hope he continues to stay out of it.
What about when they shoot first?
“What about when they shoot first?”
Happens all the time in the states. People protest or otherwise instigate a reaction from authorities. They get that reaction, sometimes losing their lives doing it. But do those people then acquire heavy weapons and start seizing cities? Not in the US - but if they did, I can PROMISE YOU the reaction here would not be much different than how the Syrian government reacted.
In other words, this is high stakes stuff, and the protesters/rebels knew it going in.
Don’t worry. No oil, no ground troops.
It’s all Face Book’s fault. If it hadn’t been for Facebook, there would have been no Arab Spring, hence no Syrian revolt. We need stricter social networking control. Thousands have died because of Facebook, often without even using guns. Guns don’t kill people, Facebook kills people.
“It’s all Face Book’s fault. If it hadn’t been for Facebook, there would have been no Arab Spring, hence no Syrian revolt.”
I agree. It was a fatal mistake of those governments to miss the electronic revolution. Now MILLIONS are displaced, hundreds of thousands are DEAD, and hundreds of women have lost their freedom. If only they blocked that crap - whoops.
I’m reminded of the cheers when Assad’s forces whacked an American allegedly fighting with the rebels.
If only they had monitored the sites and hacked the personal user information, they could have found the inciters and quietly killed them, and everything would have been just fine. Luckily for America, the government has wisely decided to obtain Verizon’s database./s
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