The UN denounces the seats and the bombing of several cities in Syria
Le Monde.fr avec AFP • Updated
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United Nations investigators (UN) on Syria denounced the release of explosives by the Syrian government on several Syrian towns, and the siege of some cities by groups opposed to the authorities in Damascus, which plunge the populationin an increasingly desperate situation.
"Seats and prolonged denial of access to aid humanitarian (...) led to malnutrition and starvation," says, Tuesday, June 23, the president of the commission of inquiry, the Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, making point [PDF in English] about the situation before the Council of Human Rights. He cites the seats Yarmouk camp, the Eastern Ghouta and Zabadani by government forces and groups accused the army és opposed to the government to besiege the cities of Nubul Zahra and in the Aleppo region and Foua has Kafria and in the region of Idlib.
In a document released Tuesday and covering the period from March 15 to June 15, the investigators note that "extreme hardship" caused by those seats last "for months, sometimes years." This is part of the "unthinkable", note the investigators, but "some people - including children - have died of starvation, dehydration" in the seats. Mr Pinheiro also denounced the "indiscriminate attacks" "deliberate" conducted in a manner by all parties in conflict against areas inhabited by civilians.
Dropping barrels of explosives indiscriminately
Investigators also deplore the dropping explosives from aircraft and government helicopters on areas north and east of Aleppo governorate, highly populated areas.
Syria is ravaged for over four years by a complex conflict involving government, rebels and Kurdish jihadists who attempt to arrogate swathes of territory. More than 230 000 people perished, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH). The conflict has thrown millions of Syrians on the street or on the roads of exile.
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