UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said that violence in the Syrian city of Aleppo “constitutes crimes of historic proportions” and should be immediately brought before the International Criminal Court, in a statement released his week.
The statement reads,
Well over 300,000 Syrians have been killed, and countless others wounded and traumatised in the course of this civil war – now also a proxy conflict, fuelled by cynical regional and international interests. Tens of thousands of people have been abducted, summarily executed or arbitrarily detained and tortured. Broken, uprooted and displaced families now number well over half the Syrian population. Hospitals, schools, marketplaces, water facilities and neighbourhoodbakeries have been deliberately and repeatedly attacked. Millions are routinely denied life-saving aid. And the attack last month on a humanitarian aid convoy took these pervasive violations of international law to a new low of barbarity.
The UN Human Rights chief went on to denounce the inaction of the international community in halting the violence and urged the Security Council, as well as the General Assembly, to act towards finding a political solution in the war torn country.