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Human Rights Watch: Crimes against humanity in Syria



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Maybe the UN can get on board as well sometime soon as well. The news yesterday about the alleged torture and mutilation of a young body has made the protesters even more angry about Assad's dictatorship. Al Jazeera:

In a statement released on Wednesday, the New York-based rights body said interviews with victims and witnesses indicate "systematic killings, beatings, torture using electroshock devices, and detention of people seeking medical care".

It said abuses by Syrian authorities "strongly suggest that these qualify as crimes against humanity".

More than 1,000 civilians have been killed by security forces and 10,000 detained since demonstrations first erupted in mid-March, according to human rights groups.

"For more than two months now, Syrian security forces have been killing and torturing their own people with complete impunity," Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director, said in the statement.


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