CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BY SYRIAN REGIME The evidence is conclusive that the al-Assad regime is committing intentional crimes against humanity. Among the crimes the al-Assad regime is committing are: indiscriminant, widespread attacks on civilians, arbitrary detention of thousands in the political opposition, genocidal massacres of whole villages of Sunni Muslims, rape of detainees, widespread torture- including torture and murder of children- and denial of food, medicines and other essential resources to civilians. The Alawite government of al-Assad believes it is about to lose all power in a zero-sum, winner take all revolution. Its massacres have become genocidal. Early warning signs and stages of genocide in Syria are: Prior unpunished genocidal massacres, such as those perpetrated by Assad’s father in Hama in the 1980’s; Rule by a minority sect – the Alawite sect that supports Assad – with an exclusionary ideology Systematic human rights atrocities; Fear by the ruling elite that any compromise will mean total loss of their power; Deliberate targeting of particular groups -- Sunni Muslims and army defectors; Denial by the Syrian government that it is committing crimes against humanity, blaming “foreign - inspired terrorist gangs” for the armed conflict.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:09:44 +0000
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