Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Syria
URGENT: PLEASE SHARE: Clear signs are emerging throughout Syria that the Syrian regime is bent on Ethnic Cleansing as well as Genocide of the Sunni population in large areas of Syria. The destruction of Mosques, shelling of graveyards, hits at the very heart of the Sunni Community and Culture. In addition to the mass murder and torture, prevention of medical care to increase the number of deaths, almost 1000 people a day now disappearing into detention, hundreds from a community at a time, destruction of homes en masse, prevention of food, water and fuel reaching entire populations, the Regime is now carrying out a mass campaign of wanton destruction of homes and property, stealing what can be removed and destroying what can't, house by house, street by street, as a means of forced displacement. We ask all governments to be aware that these additional crimes against humanity are being committed and beg for urgent attention and assistance.
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States must “act now” to protect Syrian population, Pillay tells General Assembly
13 February 2012
NEW YORK – Citing the onslaught on Homs, and reports suggesting widespread and systematic attacks on civilians amounting to crimes against humanity, as well as the rising risk of a humanitarian crisis, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday urged states to “act now” to protect the Syrian population.
“Each and every member of the international community must act now to urgently protect the Syrian population,” Pillay said in an address to the UN General Assembly.
“I am outraged by these serious violations,” she told the assembled State representatives. “I am very distressed that the continued ruthless repression and deliberate stirring of sectarian tensions might soon plunge Syria into civil war. The longer the international community fails to take action, the more the civilian population will suffer from countless atrocities committed against them.”
The UN Human Rights chief noted that “the gross, widespread and systematic human rights violations have not only continued, but also sharply escalated” since the General Assembly adopted a Resolution condemning human rights violations by the Syrian authorities on 19 December. “The failure of the Security Council to agree on firm collective action appears to have emboldened the Syrian Government to launch an all-out assault in an effort to crush dissent with overwhelming force,” she added, after painting an extremely grim picture of the situation in Homs.
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Navanethem "Navi" Pillay (Tamil: நவநீதம் பிள்ளை; born 23 September 1941) is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. A South African, she was the first non-white woman on the High Court of South Africa,[1] and she has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Her four-year term as High Commissioner for Human Rights began on 1 September 2008.[2]
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