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March 19, 2014

U.N. Panel: Enough Evidence to Indict Syrian Combatants for War Crimes 
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United Nations investigators have expanded their list of suspected war
criminals from both sides of Syria's civil war. Panel chair Paulo
Pinheiro and inquiry member Carla Del Ponte said they've collected
enough evidence to indict.

Paulo Pinheiro: "This so-called perpetrators list contains names of
persons individually criminally responsible for some war crimes and
human rights violations, the names of heads of intelligence branches and
detention facilities where torture was found, names of military
commanders who target civilians, airports from which barrel bomb attacks
are planted and executed, and names of armed groups involved in
attacking and displacing civilians."

Carla Del Ponte: "I must say as former prosecutor that I would be glad
to be prosecutor of this office of the prosecutor, because the
commission have collected a lot of evidences that can be used tomorrow
to prepare an indictment."

 

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