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Will Assad escape punishment? A question that plagues Syrians greatly, and in a new development in the United States of America, the Bashar al-Assad regime revealed a series of crimes of torture, murder and enforced disappearance against the Syrian people. , through about 900 thousand official documents, highlighted by the “60 Minutes” program broadcast by “CBS”.
Documents verified and archived by the International Committee for Justice and Accountability, headed by Stephen Rapp, a former US diplomat and specialist in international criminal justice issues, condemn Assad and his regime, some of which amount to the genocide of their village, as happened in 2013 when the Syrian army was allowed to bomb residential neighborhoods with gas. Internationally, nerves are banned and around 1,400 people died, including men, women and even children.
According to the program, these documents are related to what is known as the Crisis Management Cell, whose members have been personally appointed by Assad, including Maher al-Assad and the heads of various intelligence branches.
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The evidence the committee has spent years archiving includes photos, documents and correspondence between intelligence branches and a security committee, which Assad had formed to suppress the demonstrations.
Raab points out during his interview on the “60 Minutes” program that Al-Assad was directly supervising the organization of the policies of repression, investigation and torture, inferring this from the presence of Assad’s name in many documents and documented reports.
The documents reveal that Al-Assad did not distinguish between a hospital, a school or civilian areas, all of which were targets of Damascus and its ally Moscow, which attacked these areas with airstrikes, not to mention the use of medicine and food. supplies as a weapon in the Syrian war, as the Bashar regime prevented the arrival of important supplies outside the regime areas.
The Commission for Justice and International Accountability is reported to be made up of a diverse group of justice professionals, who have experience as investigators, analysts, and lawyers from their home countries.
Since its outbreak in 2011, the Syrian war has killed more than 387,000 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and the displacement of more than half of Syria’s population, and the United Nations counted 6.7 million of displaced people. people and 5.5 million refugees.