Thousands of Syrians have died in the violence since March and the panel, citing what it called a reliable source, said at least 500 children are among the dead.
The report also identifies 38 detention centers “for which the commission documented cases of torture and ill-treatment since March 2011.”
It doesn’t say who these investigating authorities might be,
ray ban, but the U.N.’s top human rights official has previously called for Syria to be referred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Members of the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council are expected to hold a special meeting on Syria in Geneva next week,Lunettes de Soleil Prada, at which the panel’s report will be formally presented.
The report details how businessmen helped hire and arm informal pro-government militias known as the Shabbiha.
The panel led by Brazilian professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said its list also identifies some armed opposition cells thought to have committed gross abuses.
But such actions were “not comparable in scale and organization with those carried out by the state,
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International pressure has been building on Assad’s government to halt its violent suppression of the opposition. Earlier this week the International Committee of the Red Cross called for temporary cease-fires so it could reach those trapped and wounded in the worst-affected areas.
“The commission has deposited with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights a sealed envelope containing the names of these people,
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“In a number of operations, the commission documented how Shabbiha members were strategically employed to commit crimes against humanity and other gross violations,” it said.
The U.N. experts indicated that the list goes as high as President Bashar Assad.
It says the four main intelligence and security agencies reporting directly to Assad -- Military Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence,
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American war reporter Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed in Homs on February 22.
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The U.N. panel was denied entry to Syria by the government,
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Armed opposition groups, loosely connected under the umbrella of the Free Syrian Army,
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But human rights groups say the violence is only increasing,
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“A reliable body of evidence exists that, consistent with other verified circumstances,
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AP - The United Nations has a secret list of top Syrian officials who could face investigation for crimes against humanity carried out by security forces in their crackdown against an anti-government uprising, a panel of U.N. human rights experts said Thursday.
The report claims that the ruling Baath Party’s National Security Bureau was responsible for translating government policies into military operations that led to the systematic arrest or killing of civilians.
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