UN Commission of Inquiry report on #Syria finds "Syrians continue to be killed on a daily basis & suffer gross human rights violations, war crimes & crimes against humanity at the hands of all parties"
.@UNCoISyria assessment based on 538 interviews, official documents, photos, videos & satellite imagery, per its report
In NE #Syria, @UNCoISyria found ongoing clashes between #Turkey forces, #PKK & Syrian Nat'l Army "further destabilized the region"
"Security situation also deteriorated" in #DeirEzzor "...where the [#SDF} increased raids & arrests of civilians w/alleged links to" #ISIS
.@UNCoISyria also found several #ISIS prisoners escaped during riots btw March & May at the #SDF-run #Ghweran & #Hasakah prisons
#ISIS active in central #Syria, per @UNCoISyria report, despite #Syria regime efforts to increase security measures in eastern #Homs
Civilians in the #Afrin & #RasalAyn regions "witnessed an onslaught of violations perpetrated by members of the Syrian National Army as well as shelling and vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices" per @UNCoISyria report
Per @UNCoISyria report, "90,000 #Syria|ns, #Iraq|is and other “third-country nationals”, predominantly women & children, with presumed family links to #ISIL [#ISIS] members, were confined in overcrowded displacement camps" in #DeirEzzor #Raqqa #Hasakah
"Outside the camps, the #Syria|n Democratic Forces [#SDF] & related entities detained & tortured civilians, & continued to use children in military roles" per @UNCoISyria
.@UNCoISyria report notes "welcome development" on use of child soldier by #SDF/#PKK
- 51 girls aged 13- 17 removed from ranks of Women’s Protection Units, sent to rehabilitation center
- 18 boys in the process of being formally released
Still, it notes 8 current violations
#SDF war crimes?
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that members of the Syrian Democratic Forces & related entities may have committed the war crime of cruel treatment & ill-treatment of those deprived of liberty in military intelligence facilities" per @UNCoISyria
"In holding tens of thousands of individuals in #Hawl camp & its annex, the majority of them children, for 18 months with no legal recourse, the Syrian Democratic Forces have held these individuals in inhuman conditions" per @UNCoISyria
#Idlib / Western #Aleppo
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham [#HTS] "continued to brutally impose their stringent ideologies on local populations, including through acts of arbitrary detention" per @UNCoISyria "They detained, tortured & executed civilians who opposed their oppressive rule"
#Turkey in #Syria
@UNCoISyria "recommends that Turkey exert more efforts to ensure public order and safety in the areas under its control to prevent such violations by the Syrian National Army, and refrain from using civilian homes for military purposes"
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