The UN announced the results of the investigation of war crimes in Syria

The international Commission of the UN has accused all sides in the conflict in Syria of committing war crimes. The focus of the experts was the situation during the battle for Aleppo in 2016.

All participants of the battle for Aleppo, including Syrian government forces, supporting videoconferencing, as well as the Syrian opposition committed war crimes during the attempts to take control of the city in July-December 2016.

In the report of the independent international Commission on investigation of events in Syria indicates that the Syrian air force and the Russian space forces inflicted on opposition held areas of Eastern Aleppo”, the daily air strikes,” in which hundreds of people were killed, and also destroyed several medical institutions. In addition, the Syrian government aircraft “intentionally” bombed a convoy with humanitarian aid, which led to 14 casualties and the suspension of the operation on rendering assistance to the local population, the document says.

Special mention, in which war crimes are suspected by the Russian side, the report does not contain, according to Reuters. The authors of the report, in particular, noted the use of air dropped cluster munitions, but does not lay the responsibility for this address – to Moscow or Damascus. Finally, the Commission draws attention to the fact that the Syrian air force used “bombs with chlorine in populated areas”, which resulted in the deaths of “hundreds of civilians”.

The UN General Assembly in December 2016 announced the creation of the ad hoc working group. Its task is to create a dossier of materials on war crimes in Syria. This is expected to help the international justice authorities to collect evidence which they can use to bring those responsible to justice.

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