Thousands of civilians have been subjected to "unimaginable suffering" including torture, sexual violence and death in detention during a decade of conflict in Syria, United Nations investigators said on Monday.
Rival groups have been blamed for atrocities since Syria’s conflict broke out in March 2011 with anti-government protests that morphed into a civil war
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Disappearance and detention to suppress dissent a hallmark of a decade of conflict in Syria – UN report
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1 March 2021
Geneva, 1 March 2021 After a decade of conflict, tens of thousands of civilians arbitrarily detained in Syria remain forcibly disappeared, while thousands more have been subject to torture, sexual violence or death in detention, according to the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
The Commission of Inquiry’s 30-plus page report, released today, based on over 2,500 interviews conducted over 10 years and investigations into more than 100 specific detention facilities, documents historical and continuing detention-related violations and abuses by nearly every major party that has controlled territory in Syria since 2011.