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A United Nations commission investigating rights violations that have occurred in Syria in the past year should be allowed to continue its work, a draft resolution presented in Geneva Friday (September 21st) said.
The draft resolution calls for an extension of the mandate -- scheduled to expire next Friday -- of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
The draft, submitted by Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, also requests that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon provide additional resources to the commission.
This is needed "in order to allow [the commission] to completely fulfil its mandate in light of the increasingly deteriorating human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic", AFP quoted the text as saying.
In its report published in August, the commission accused the Syrian regime and, to a lesser extent, opposition forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The commission has also drawn up two confidential lists of names of people and groups suspected of carrying out atrocities in the country.
The UN Human Rights Council will vote on the draft resolution next week.
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على أحمد على
2012-9-25
All the Arab countries should direct their efforts and energies quickly to save the Syrian refugees from the heinous crimes and cruel acts of Bashar, his aides, and the forces of the oppressive regular army that deals with the Syrian citizens as if they were their enemy, and they use against them all means of genocide, repression, murder, and torture. As such, the guilt of killing these people is in the neck of the Arab people and the Arab presidents who do not help the Syrians by any means or support. It is time for all of us to stand as one man and to fight with all our power to stop the bleeding that happened in Syria and to punish the criminals for the crimes they committed against the Syrian people and their lands. We should take an obvious decision about what is happening in Syria now and to oppose it strongly even if we have to supply them with the weapons and ammunition in order to be able to defend themselves and to fight against those who want to attack them, or their properties and freedom. We should help them by all means and support them with money, food, clothes, and medicines. We should also work on providing a suitable level for the refugees who left these missiles and bombs that flew through the Syrian sky and make them stop targeting the innocent children, women, youth, men, and old people as well as anyone who says no to the regime or its injustice since Bashar reached the throne and controls the resources of the country, its revenues, economy, and all its natural and human capacities, whether local or international.
يوسف الشيراوي
2012-9-24
Bashar Al Assad is a criminal and war model, and history will never forgive him for what he did to his people. The people, due to all of his faults, were rejecting the injustice and tyranny, and demanded their rights, but their ruler fought it and committed the ugliest crimes. Some families’ women were raped and their children were killed. He did not have enough of the killing, so he also skinned, burned, and used all means of abuse towards the corpses. What Bashar had done to his people, we never heard about this before in any country or reign. He did not have enough of destroying his people only, but he also destroyed the country, as well as its resources and facilities. All what we can say to these brave people is what the Prophet, peace be upon him, said: "O members of the family of Yasir! Be patient. You have been promised Paradise. Whatever Bashar did, your rights will never be wasted. There is no right that is lost as long as there is a persuader after it.”