This week, a United Nations report mentioned “widespread” infractions, “including sexual violence and enforced disappearances.”
“Our report lays bare the harrowing reality within the Syrian government detention system,” said Robert Petit, chairman of the United Nations’ International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism.
The severity of the purposeful bodily and psychological suffering is shown by the former prisoners’ interview records, which are supported by forensic medical evidence.
The use of chemical weapons in the eastern and western Ghouta districts of Damascus, which killed hundreds of people with what was thought to be the nerve agent sarin, was attributed to government troops, according to a 2013 Human Rights Watch investigation.
The Investigation and Identification Team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons subsequently.
Reported that three chemical weapons attacks were carried out by Assad’s government in Ltamenah in March 2017, Saraqib in February 2018, and Douma in April 2018.
