Now the UN says that Assad and pro-Assad forces “conduct widespread attacks on the civilian population, committing murder, torture, rape and enforced disappearance as crimes against humanity.

“They have laid siege to neighbourhoods and subjected them to indiscriminate shelling. Government forces have committed gross violations of human rights and the war crimes of torture, hostage-taking, murder, execution without due process, rape, attacking protected objects and pillage.”

But, as for the forces the Obama administration appears to back, it says “anti-government armed groups have committed war crimes including murder, execution without due process, torture, hostage taking and attacking protected objects. They have besieged and indiscriminately shelled civilian neighbourhoods.”


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