France asks court to seek Assad crimes against humanity trial

[webfact]

France asks court to seek Assad crimes against humanity trial



PARIS: -- French prosecutors will be hoping pictures do not lie as they open their case for crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The pictures come from the Syrian army officer once responsible for the archive who turned all 55,000 photos over to the investigators. The allegations also include torture and kidnapping, and 11,000 alleged victims of state security services have been identified.

Even if some victims are found to be French a trial in France is unlikely. The opening of the case is to clarify jurisdiction.

“When dead demonstrators arrived at the military hospital, and there were more and more of their bodies, he discovered the horror, signs of unbearable torture, victims only weighing 30 or 40 kilos, so he really saw that people were dying of hunger or torture in prison,” said the author of a book about ‘Caesar’, as the defector is known, Garance Le Caisne.

France is striking a tough international posture over Assad in the latest twist to the Syrian tragedy, with foreign minister Fabius opening this prosecution and revealing the archive, and insisting Assad is not part of any post-war solution.

Russia, which is now adding its firepower to Assad’s forces, insist he should stay.

Revealing who passed through the prison system will be a long struggle.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-10-01

[hard124get]

Which government does Hollande really work fo?

[craigt3365]

Which government does Hollande really work fo?

One that stands up for crimes against innocent civilians. Congrats to him for this. Assad and his father have a pretty bad track record with regards to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad

Human Rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have detailed how the Assads regime's secret police routinely tortured, imprisoned, and killed political opponents, and those who speak out against the regime.^{%5B117%5D%5B118%5D} In addition some 600 Lebanese political prisoners are thought to be held in regime prisons since the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, with some held for as long as over 30 years.^%5B119%5D Since 2006 it expanded the use of travel bans against dissidents. In that regard, Syria is the worst offender among Arab states.^%5B120%5D The Syrian mukhabarat is Alawite dominated.

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The FBI has said that at least 10 European citizens were tortured by the Assad regime while detained during the Syrian Civil War, potentially leaving Assad open to prosecution by individual European countries for war crimes committed under his rule.^%5B127%5DStephen Rapp, the United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, has argued that Assad's crimes are the worst seen since those of Nazi Germany.^%5B128%5D In March 2015, Rapp further stated that the case against Syrian President Bashar Assad is "much better" than those against Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia or Charles Taylor of Liberia, both of whom were indicted by international tribunals.^%5B129%5D

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^{In March 2015 a report published by Physicians for Human Rights documented that the Assad regime was responsible for the vast majority of the deaths of 600 medical workers since the Syrian Civil War began; 88% of recorded attacks on hospitals and 97% of killings of medical workers were attributed to Assad's forces.%5B133%5D}

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^{A 2015 report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights found that 49 of 56 major massacres displaying "obvious sectarian or ethnic cleansing traits" were carried out by the Assad regime.%5B136%5D}

Blows my mind people actually stand up for this criminal.

[phil2]

Which government does Hollande really work fo?

The British, American, German and Saudi Arabian governments.

The people who sponsored the rebels in the first place should be the ones in court for the said crime.

[Thorgal]

Which government does Hollande really work fo?

Russian involvement in this conflict comes with a lot of open and hidden protests of other nations.

OP refers to French foreign minister Laurent Fabius who openly declared in early stage of this conflict to provide weapons to the Syrian rebels and to bomb with or without the UN umbrella the Syrian army of Assad.

More or less the same scenario of the Lybian conflict who was instigated by a single French man named Bernard Henry Levy.

Make some research and you will come to conclusion that this is all orchestrated by a single country which isn't France...

[bangkapi]

Let's get Bush, Cheney and Obama on that war crimes list, please.

[pedro01]

Which government does Hollande really work fo?

One that stands up for crimes against innocent civilians. Congrats to him for this. Assad and his father have a pretty bad track record with regards to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad

Human Rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have detailed how the Assads regime's secret police routinely tortured, imprisoned, and killed political opponents, and those who speak out against the regime.^{%5B117%5D%5B118%5D} In addition some 600 Lebanese political prisoners are thought to be held in regime prisons since the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, with some held for as long as over 30 years.^%5B119%5D Since 2006 it expanded the use of travel bans against dissidents. In that regard, Syria is the worst offender among Arab states.^%5B120%5D The Syrian mukhabarat is Alawite dominated.

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The FBI has said that at least 10 European citizens were tortured by the Assad regime while detained during the Syrian Civil War, potentially leaving Assad open to prosecution by individual European countries for war crimes committed under his rule.^%5B127%5DStephen Rapp, the United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, has argued that Assad's crimes are the worst seen since those of Nazi Germany.^%5B128%5D In March 2015, Rapp further stated that the case against Syrian President Bashar Assad is "much better" than those against Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia or Charles Taylor of Liberia, both of whom were indicted by international tribunals.^%5B129%5D

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^{In March 2015 a report published by Physicians for Human Rights documented that the Assad regime was responsible for the vast majority of the deaths of 600 medical workers since the Syrian Civil War began; 88% of recorded attacks on hospitals and 97% of killings of medical workers were attributed to Assad's forces.%5B133%5D}

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^{A 2015 report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights found that 49 of 56 major massacres displaying "obvious sectarian or ethnic cleansing traits" were carried out by the Assad regime.%5B136%5D}

Blows my mind people actually stand up for this criminal.

Well - after deposing Saddam and Gaddaffi, people have a little more common sense as to who might fill the vacuum.

Lesser of 2 evils