Syria: Need to Address Disappearances, Wrongful Detentions, Disregard for Civilian Lives

Human Rights Watch thanks the Commission of Inquiry for highlighting the Syrian-Russian military alliance’s dangerous disregard for civilian lives. In the last 6 months, Human Rights Watch has documented indiscriminate and targeted attacks by the Syrian-Russian military alliance on civilians and civilian objects in Idlib, Ghouta and Aleppo, including through using internationally-prohibited weapons. The latest act in this horrific tragedy is the ongoing, relentless bombardment of Eastern Ghouta. Civilians bear the brunt of the alliance’s well-established tactics of weaponizing humanitarian access…

© Human Rights Watch - mardi 13 mars 2018