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More than 12 million people, including 6.5 million children, require direct international aid, the UN says [Xinhua]
Pinheiro, who is the head of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that the international community’s failure to end the conflict has created a “deeply entrenched culture of impunity”.
“A war in which civilians are systematically killed, opponents are silenced, and communities are pitted against one another, requires more than compassion to resolve.”
The Commission said that both the Syrian government’s forces and rebels – seeking to overthrow the rule of Bashar Al Assad – are to blame for directly targeting civilians.
“Civilians continue to lose their lives, homes and livelihoods in a conflict in which there little if any attempt to adhere to international law,” Pinheiro added.
The UN says that more than 200,000 people, including armed parties, have been killed in the conflict, which has also left at least one million people injured.
The brutality of the civil war has created one of the worst refugee crises in modern history – 6.5 million people have been forced to flee the conflict.
More than three million of those have escaped to neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
“The Syrian people deserve an unambiguous commitment to helping them to return their country to peace. To create conditions amenable to negotiations is a shared responsibility,” Pinheiro said.
