Syria and Isis committing war crimes, says UN
Source: UK Guardian
Report by United Nations commission says both Damascus government and Islamist militant group should face trials at ICC
Syrian government forces have dropped barrel bombs on civilian areas, including some believed to contain the chemical agent chlorine in eight incidents in April, and have committed other war crimes that should be prosecuted, they said in a 45-page report issued in Geneva on Wednesday.
Deaths in custody in Syrian jails are on the rise and forensic analysis of 26,948 photographs allegedly taken from 2011-2013 in government detention centres support its "longstanding findings of systematic torture and deaths of detainees".
The report also said that Isis forces in northern Syria were waging a campaign to instil fear, including amputations, public execution-style killings and whippings.
The investigators have drawn up four confidential lists of suspects who they believe should face international justice. In the report, they reiterated their call for the UN security council to refer violations in Syria to the prosecutor of the ICC.
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