UN: Assad regime killing of so many detainees amounts to ’extermination’

UN: Assad regime killing of so many detainees amounts to ’extermination’
The Assad regime is killing so many detainees in Syria that it now amounts to the crime against humanity of "extermination", a UN report has found.

In a document published by the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, investigators found the Assad regime responsible for "massive and systematized violence".

The crimes against humanity committed by the Assad regime, according to the UN, far outnumber those of ISIS militants and other jihadist groups.

The UN commission of inquiry called on the Security Council to impose "targeted sanctions" against Syrian officials. Its report was based on interviews with 621 survivors and witnesses and covers the period March 2011 to November 2015.

"The situation of detainees in Syria is critical, and represents an urgent and large scale crisis of human rights protection," the Commission of Inquiry in Syria report said.

The report says that thousands of persons still in custody and there is an urgent need to take steps by the Assad regime, armed groups, the external backers of various belligerents, and the wider international community to prevent further deaths.

It also said that in the interviews it conducted, almost every one of over 500 survivors of regime detention centers said they were victims of "torture and inhuman and degrading treatment".

Some witnessed others being beaten to death during interrogations or in their cells, while others died "as a consequence of inhuman living conditions inflicted on the prison population".

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