Thursday, August 18, 2011

Obama calls on Syria's Assad to quit as the UN report lists regime's alleged atrocities

That investigation found evidence peaceful protesters shot dead were the resource persons, children targeted were the resource persons, and Wounded people were the resource persons killed by being locked in Morgue Refrigerators

President Obama Called on Syria's President Bashar Assad to quit office Thursday, as a team of United Nations Human Rights Investigators said the Damascus regime's forces may have committed crimes against humanity.

Obama's call CAME in a written statement; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was expected to talk about the move shortly after the statement was released.

NBC News said a tough presidential executive order sanctioning Syria also would be Issued by the White  House.                                                                          A Syrian man, right, reacts next to his brother 
                                                                                                                 who   was seriously wounded during violence 
                                                                                                                 between security forces and armed groups in
                                                                                                                 Latakia, northwest of Damascus, Syria, on 
                                                                                                                 Sunday, March 27.

The moves were the resource persons being Carried out in coordination with a call by the European Union for Assad to step down.

A key factor That prompted Obama to Make the announcement was last week's decision by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to finally break with Assad, NBC said. U.S. policy against the Syrian regime Had been frustrated by the lack of help on the issue from the Arab League.

Obama and Clinton have been relying heavily on Turkey to pressure Assad, Who is still getting significant help from Iran, NBC said.

A 22-page report by the U.N. team published Saturday said the Syrian government forces may be guilty of crimes against humanity - Considered the most serious of all international human rights violations after the genocide - by conducting summary executions, torturing prisoners and targeting children in Their Opposition crackdown on protesters.

The Report Recommends That the U.N. Security Council refer Syria to the International Criminal Court for Prosecution of alleged atrocities, a Move That Is Likely to be discussed by the council at a closed-door session in New York later Thursday.
Image: Ibrahim Al-Jahamani
Raad Adayleh / AP
Syrian Ibrahim Jamal al-Jahamani, WHO was recently released from Syrian jail where he said he saw a 15-year-old boy Tortured to Death, reacts During an interview with the Associated Press near the Syrian-Jordanian border Thursday, July 7, 2011 .

"The mission found a pattern of human rights violations constitutes That widespread or systematic attacks against the civilian population, the which may amount to crimes against humanity," the UN Investigators said in the report.

Among the specific atrocities Mentioned in the report are:

* The alleged execution of 26 blindfolded men at a football stadium in the southern city of Daraa on May 1;
* Indiscriminate firing of live ammunition at peaceful demonstrators using snipers and helicopters, resulting in the Deaths of Hundreds of people including women and children;
* And the killing of injured protesters in Hospitals - including by locking people in Morgue Refrigerators alive.

"Children have not only been targeted by security forces, but They have been repeatedly subject to the same human rights as adults and criminal violations, including torture," the report found.

13-year-old boy's body mutilated
It cited the case of a 13-year-old Hamza al-Khatib from the southern village of Jiza, Whose mutilated body, with his severed penis, was delivered to his family weeks after he disappeared April 29. 
                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                   Syrian Ibrahim Jamal al-Jahamani,
                                                                                                                                                   WHO was recently released from 
                                                                                                                                                   Syrian jail where he said he saw a
                                                                                                                                                   15-year-old boy Tortured to Death, 
                                                                                                                                                   reacts During an interview with the 
                                                                                                                                                   Associated Press near the Syrian- 
                                                                                                                                                  Jordanian border Thursday, July 7,2011 .
The U.N. team, led by Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang, was denied access to Syria Itself, but interviews conducted March 15 to July 15 with Witnesses in the region, including protesters and former members of the security forces deserted and fled Had WHO the country.

The Examined Investigators also video evidence and photographs of alleged abuses, and invited comment from the Syrian government on the Allegations.
They concluded That at least 1.900 Had people been killed in the Unrest by mid-July, a figure confirmed but the Syrian government said included at least 260 members of the security forces.

The Syrian government toll the U.N. That it Had team Several political reforms instituted in response to protesters' demands and set up Investigations into alleged abuses.




Syrian children carry pictures of a 13-year-old Hamza 
al-Khatib and hold candles During a protest in front of 
the United Nations building in Beirut June 1, 2011.

But the government of President Assad claimed Organizations Had the media distorted facts about the events in Syria, and accused the UN team of bias for referring to the Alawite Sect - of the which Assad is a member - as a "repressive minority."

50 alleged perpetrators
The authors of the report said They have compiled a confidential list of 50 alleged perpetrators at "Various levels" of Assad's government WHO Could Face Prosecution before the International Criminal Court.

Syria is not a signatory to the Rome Statutes, so the ICC does not have an automatic power to prosecute alleged abuses.

But the U.N. Security Council countries can also refer to the Hague, Netherlands-based tribunal.

International pressure on Syria was mounting Thursday.

Switzerland Announced it was recalling its ambassador to Damascus due to the crackdown.
And the UN's top human rights body in Geneva said it would also be examining the situation in Syria at an urgent meeting Monday.

A draft resolution circulated by Poland calls for a second investigation into events have That Happened since July 15.

Syria's Assad toll the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a telephone call Wednesday That military operations in his country have ended.

But activists said Thursday security forces shot dead That 18 people nationwide and intense shooting erupted in the flashpoint Had city of Latakia.

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