Russia, backed by China, vetoed on December 20 against a draft resolution calling for the extension of United Nations assistance through border points to 4 million Syrians for a year, in flagrant defiance of all Security Council members, appeals to non-permanent members and criticism of permanent members. It is well known that the mechanism approved […]
International Report: Systemised Torture Designed to Kill in Syrian Regime Prisons
The Independent International Committee of Inquiry on Syria has published a specialised report concerning acts of mass killing which detainees of the Syrian regime are subjected to, amounting to “extermination” – as it called it- of the civilian population, which is a crime against humanity. The inquiry commission, which works for the UN, called on […]