Civil war in Syria reached new depths of “madness,” UN

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An injured boy rests in a field hospital after what activists claim were two air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Douma, Syria on Sept. 14, 2014. Badra Mamet—Reuters
An injured boy rests in a field hospital after what activists claim were two air strikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Douma, Syria on Sept. 14, 2014.
Badra Mamet—Reuters

The civil war in Syria had reached new depths of “madness,” United Nations investigators warned at a Geneva briefing on Tuesday in which they presented fresh evidence of atrocities committed by fighters on both sides of the conflict.

“I have run out of words to depict the gravity of the crimes committed inside Syria,” said Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, who chairs the U.N. investigative panel on Syria, the New York Times reports.

Pinheiro cited evidence of mass killings across territory held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) in northeastern Syria, where fighters have executed hundreds of captive Syrian soldiers as well as members of rival tribes. Pinheiro said ISIS fighters encouraged children to attend public executions, including beheadings, stonings and crucifixions.

But the Syrian government remained responsible for the majority of civilian deaths and injuries, Pinheiro said, due to daily shelling and aerial bombardments, as well as mass arrests and widespread torture at the hands of government interrogators. Investigators released a 17-page report that included eyewitness testimony from civilians on the ground. “If you want to know what effect this war has had you must listen to its victims,” Pinheiro said.

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3 responses to “Civil war in Syria reached new depths of “madness,” UN”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    “I have run out of words to depict the gravity of the crimes committed inside Syria,” …..
    Hmmmm …. wonder if he tried “Machiavellian” … a misused but perhaps fitting term …

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/
    ‘goodness does not ensure power and the good person has no more authority by virtue of being good’
    Machiavelli observes that “one can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit…. Love is a bond of obligation which these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes”.
    (not excluding ‘Women’ intentionally here … just quoting … equality, and all that stuff … ;-))

  2. This is what happens in wars and war is a kind of madness,this is what happens when mad fanatics are loose and this is what happens when regimes terrorize and commit atrocities against their own people !!!

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Well, speaking of Putin … he joins ‘the boys’ at a youth-camp … and gives lessons.
    “The Kazakhs never had any statehood,” Putin explained to the assembled Russian youth. The country may have declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, but that wasn’t the point. Kazakhstan’s ruler had created “a state in a territory that had never had a state before”.
    Far better, Putin offered, to “remain in the greater Russian world”.
    Like Ukrainians wished also … 😉

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