Syria: Assad regime has policy of ‘extermination’ for prisoners, says UN

The Syrian regime has implemented a state policy of extermination against its own population, killing thousands of detainees since civil war broke out in 2011, the UN says. UN human rights investigators found prisoners held by the government of Bashar al-Assad have been subjected to a series of atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

 

The report titled Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Deaths In Detention also accuses militant groups opposing Damascus, including the Islamic State (Isis) and al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, of similar crimes of widespread torture, summary executions and deadly beatings of their captives.

 

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