Remove obstacles for returning Syrian refugees to their homes, Commission of Inquiry demanded
(North Press) – The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria renewed its call to hold those responsible for human rights crimes in Syria accountable.
During a virtual meeting on Tuesday, the commissioner Paulo Pinheiro presented the commission’s 21st mandated report to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC).
On Wednesday, the commission’s Twitter posted a video footage of Pinheiro’s statement as he demanded taking six steps in addition to holding those responsible for human rights crimes in Syria accountable.
The steps Pinheiro called for, included international mechanism for collecting information on about 100,000 missing and disappeared, and facilitating prisoner releases .
He demanded ensuring detention monitoring by an independent international organization.
Also, Pinheiro stressed on facilitating a moratorium on executions, and a rule of law reforms.
While the matter of returning 5.6 million refugees and 6.6 million IDPs to their homes, and the ability to reclaim their property, were at the last.
On September 15, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syrian published its report investigating human rights violations from January to July of 2020.
The report stated that “looting and property confiscation by the Syrian National Army in mainly Kurdish areas is rife, as the whole communities and cultures are under attack and UNESCO sites have been bulldozed and looted.”
For their part, both the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) welcomed the report issued by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, and considered it an important start for documenting violations in the regions of Afrin, Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), and Tel Abyad (Gre Spi).