The Syrian government committed crimes against humanity “on a massive scale” in Daraya, according to an investigation

Aug. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Syrian government of Bashar al Assad and its allies committed crimes against humanity and war crimes “on a massive scale” against the population of Daraya, in Damascus, where more than 700 people were killed and buried in makeshift mass graves, according to an investigation of the Syrian British Consortium (SBC).

“It marks ten years since Syrian and allied forces launched a planned and coordinated attack, including 72 hours of door-to-door summary executions, against civilians in Daraya. In just one week, 700 people were killed and hundreds detained or disappeared.” , the consortium explained on its official Twitter profile.

In this sense, he explained that Al Assad’s forces “continue to commit violence and war crimes”, so this investigation “should serve as an urgent call to the international community to fulfill its responsibility to protect Syrian civilians.” “.

In a nearly 50-page report, the organization explains that the event in this Damascene suburb was “a highly coordinated and systematic attack” in which the government and its allies “committed multiple crimes against humanity and war crimes,” such as murders , imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture or looting.

“Witnesses interviewed in this investigation expressed feeling disappointed by the international response to the massacre and the Syrian conflict in general, and stated that they gave their testimony out of a sense of duty, as well as a faint hope that it might
contribute to the achievement of justice”, say the conclusions of the report.

The investigation thus reveals that Bashar al-Assad’s government — including the Fourth Division, the Republican Guard, Air Force Intelligence, as well as state-sponsored and Iranian militias — participated in the massacre against the civilian population of the Damascene neighborhood of Daraya.

Assad’s forces bombed entire neighborhoods and deliberately attacked hospitals and schools “with rockets, missiles and mortars, as well as air strikes with helicopters and warplanes,” the text collects, as reported by the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’ .