Message to Mr. Kofi Annan

by لجان التنسيق المحلية في سوريا on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 20:25 

 

To Mr. Kofi Annan, UN Envoy to Damascus: This is a distress call from the women and children of the city of Douma. The visit of the United Nations monitors, under your direction, has killed us today. We request that you immediately intervene to stop the bombing and killings carried out by the regime’s army, which is punishing the entire city because we received your delegation of observers with hospitality and professionalism. We have given the observers the documents necessary to prove that the regime is in ciminal violation of the cease-fire. What is happening now is that we have a tragic situation and sustained shelling, which has signficantly increased since the morning hours, and which increased in intensity and force as of 4:00 pm, with an average of four shells per minute. Dozens of wounded and martyrs have been reported during the past 3 hours. A large number of them are still under rubble and most homes in the city have been subjected to shelling and destruction. More than 30 tanks are now shelling the city. Residents are demanding immediate intervention to protect them, since the Free Syrian Army is under fire and unable to militarily repel this full-scale military assault. We urge you to immediately send in a group of monitors who can offer some sort of protection from the heavy military assault.

The Arab League, US, EU states, GCC states, and other countries have condemned the use of violence against the protesters. China and Russia have avoided condemning the government or applying sanctions > (UN Security Council Permanent Members), saying that such methods could escalate into foreign intervention. However, military intervention has been ruled out by most countries.[60][61] The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership over the government’s response to the crisis,[62] but sent an observer mission in December 2011, as part of its proposal for peaceful resolution of the crisis. The latest attempts to resolve the crisis has been made through the appointment of Kofi Annan, as a special envoy to resolve the Syrian crisis in the Middle East. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_uprising

Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, „are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings. They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. Murder; extermination; torture; rape; political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice. Isolated inhumane acts of this nature may constitute grave infringements of human rights, or depending on the circumstances, war crimes, but may fall short of falling into the category of crimes under discussion.“[1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity

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World Organization for the Defense of Human Rights المنظمة العالمية للدفاع عن حقوق الإنسان 

13 February 2012 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on the international community to act now and protect the Syrian population. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Pillay said the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and herself have concluded that crimes against humanity are likely to have been committed in Syria. She called upon all member states to ensure that these crimes do not go unpunished.

United Nations Human Rights 13 February 2012 – Pillay: “Act now” to protect Syrian people “Each and every member of the international community must act now to urgently protect the Syrian population,” UN human rights chief Pillay said today in an address to the UN General Assembly.

She cited the onslaught on Homs, and reports suggesting widespread and systematic attacks on civilians amounting to crimes against humanity, as well as the rising risk of a humanitarian crisis in her address.

“I am outraged by these serious violations,” she told the assembled State representatives. “I am very distressed that the continued ruthless repression and deliberate stirring of sectarian tensions might soon plunge Syria into civil war. The longer the international community fails to take action, the more the civilian population will suffer from countless atrocities committed against them.”

Read the full address: http://bit.ly/yIB7g8

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Caption: An undated handout photograph made available by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria on 12 February 2012 shows smoke rising from a building reportedly following shelling by the Syrian army in the Bab Amr neighbourhood of Homs, Syria.

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

‘Following a number of media reports that Syria’s cultural heritage is threatened by the current conflict, I wish to express my grave concern about possible damage to precious sites and to call upon all those involved in the conflict to ensure the protection of the outstanding cultural legacy that Syria hosts on its soil. Damage to the heritage of the country is damage to the soul of its people and its identity.’    http://on.unesco.org/HmFp2q

 

Learn more about Syria’s World Heritage Sites: http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/sy

Syrian Arab Republic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria


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