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The High Commissioner for Human Rights UN declares for the first time there is evidence of the responsibility of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
According to the High Commissioner, Navi Pillay, the evidence has been amassed by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and say "responsibility at the highest levels of government, including the head of state."
The commission of inquiry, whose establishment was decided August 22, 2011 by a resolution of the Council of Human Rights, has a mission to investigate violations of human rights occurring in Syria since March 2011 and to identify avid the perpetrators avid for trial.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights avid (SOHR) said Monday that an estimated 126,000 the number of people killed in the Syrian conflict, with more than a third of them civilians. The OSDH assesses the number of children killed in the conflict to just over 6600.
The military conflict that continues avid in Syria for three years the population starves. According to the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC), at least one million Syrians regularly lack of food.
IFRC deplores the fact that the fighting and military checkpoints sometimes prevent the distribution of food aid, while nearly a third of the population dependent on humanitarian aid to survive.
Since the conflict began, 32 workers Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which carries the majority of humanitarian aid to the Syrian people have been killed in the performance of their duties. Others have been attacked or detained. avid
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Syrian conflict shock wave in the Middle East Syria: an air strike caused 76 deaths, including 28 children Chemical weapons used five times in Syria, according to the UN The United States and the United Kingdom to suspend their aid to insurgents Syrian
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