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Tens of thousands of civilians in Syria were “arbitrarily detained in enforced disappearances during the country s 10-year conflict, a UN commission said in a report released Monday. The fate of many remains unknown to this day.
Thousands more have been subjected to torture and sexual violence, offenses that can amount to war crimes, the report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said. The commission has regularly reported on suspected human rights violations and abuses since the civil war erupted.
According to the report, the Syrian government arbitrarily arrested and detained individuals and committed “war crimes and crimes against humanity in the context of detention.” Other parties in the conflict also committed crimes by unlawfully and arbitrarily depriving individuals of their liberty, it said.
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Fate still unclear of ‘tens of thousands’ of civilian detainees in Syria March 01, 2021
Destroyed buildings in eastern Aleppo city, Syria. courtesy OCHA/Halldorsson
GENEVA The fate of tens of thousands of civilians being held in Syria’s “notorious” prisons or detention centers is still unclear, 10 years after the country’s civil war began, UN investigators said on Monday.
According to the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, thousands more have been subject to torture, sexual violence or death in captivity.
Despite the “staggering” wealth of evidence, almost all parties to the conflict “failed to investigate their own forces”, said Commissioner Karen Koning AbuZayd.
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
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.