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U.N.'s Pillay Renews Demand for Syria War Crimes Case
[An Nahar] U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay made a new demand Friday for the divided Security Council to order an  International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... war crimes investigation in Syria. Her call added to a petition by 58 countries calling for a war crimes case over the 22-month-old conflict in which the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... says more than 60,000 people have been killed, mostly by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's Despoiler of Deraa... forces. U.N. leader  the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said before the meeting that Syria was in the grip of a "death spiral." But Pillay said after a closed council meeting that she saw little sign that the 15-member body, badly split over the conflict, was ready to take a decision. "I firmly believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed, are being committed and should be investigated," Pillay told news hounds. "I have urged the Security Council to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court for investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity on the part of all parties engaged in this conflict," she added. Pillay said victims in Syria "see the situation as the United Nations not carrying out its responsibility to protect victims." Pillay gave the 60,000 corpse count earlier this month but said it was an estimate by specialists and was probably much higher. The estimate "does not account for all of the killings in Syria," she said. U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said she had raised concerns at the meeting "about the vicious and indiscriminate nature of the violence" and increasing levels of sexual violence and rape. Syria is not an ICC member and the Security Council is the only body which can refer the conflict to the court. Posted by: Fred 2013-01-19 |
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