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Investigators Found That the Highest Levels of Syria's Government 'Planned, Organized, Instigated and Deployed' the Militias From the Start of the War in 2011, and That There Were Reasonable Grounds to Believe the Militias Committed Crimes Against Humanity

In the early years of Syria's brutal conflict, top government officials established and directed paramilitary groups known as shabbiha to help the state crack down on opponents, war crimes investigators have documented. In a report shared with Reuters, the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) published seven documents its investigators said showed that the highest levels of Syria's government "planned, organised, instigated and deployed" the shabbiha from the start of the war in 2011. U.N. investigators in 2012 concluded there were reasonable gro...

In the early years of Syria's brutal conflict, top government officials established and directed paramilitary groups known as shabbiha to help the state crack down on opponents, war crimes investigators have documented.

With over 100,000 Syrians still missing, families are awaiting a vote on a new UN body that will seek to trace those who were forcibly disappeared during Syria's civil war.

Click to expand Image Activists and relatives of Syrians suspected of being detained or forcibly disappeared by the Syrian government pose with portraits of missing Syrians during a demonstration in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on May 7, 2022. 2022 John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images (New York) - United Nations member countries should vote to establish a humanitarian body that will seek to provide Syrians with long-overdue answers about their long-missing loved ones, Human Rights Watch and over 100 other Syrian and international human rights organizations said today. The groups' me...