UN : Syrian elimination of crimes against humanity

UN : Syrian elimination of crimes against humanity
Syrian troops carry out a systematic attempt to terrorize citizens with enforced disappearances , which evolved into crimes against humanity , the United Nations said on Thursday the results of the investigation .

" Disappearances done as part of a widespread terror against civilians , " said the International Independent Commission of Inquiry in its report .

" There are reasonable grounds to believe that the removal of residents was conducted by government troops as part of a widespread and systematic attacks against civilians , and therefore becomes a crime against humanity , " he said .

Government troops and allied militias staged as a protest against the regime of President Bashar al - Assad erupted in March 2011 , said one of the commission members are former war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte .

The movement led to the victim's family was filled with anxiety because they do not know whether they were arrested or dead .

The commission says that by 2011 up to early 2012 , the majority of the missing are men aged between 16 and 40 years who were arrested during the protest .

After that , the net is becoming widespread with mass arrests and targeting rebel associates or family or civilians living in the opposition .

Patients from rebel territory must go to government territory captured in the hospital , the commission added .

Meanwhile , health workers arrested to punish them for working in the opposition and blocking other medical staff to do the same.

The Commission did not make an estimate of the total number of Syrian citizens missing or the name of his cases , but sources close to the investigation said the commission has recorded more than 100 cases .

" These numbers represent only a fraction of cases of disappearances in Syria . Commission has reason to believe that thousands are gone, " the source said .

In September , the International Committee of the Red Cross focused on the search of missing persons in war zones says , " unknown numbers " have been lost in Syria .

The committee said it received more than 1,000 requests from people who were desperate search for his family members , including an estimated 800 were arrested and the number is likely just the tip of the iceberg , accordin