GENEVA, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Tuesday, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including arbitrary detention by governme...
The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said the overall situation was increasingly bleak, noting hostilities in several areas of the fractured country, its collapsing economy, drying riverbeds and increased attacks by Islamic State militants.
“The war on Syrian civilians continues, and it is difficult for them to find security or safe haven in this war-torn country.”“The Commission has continued to document not only torture and sexual violence in detention but also custodial deaths and enforced disappearances,” a press release said. Commissioner Hanny Megally said there had been a “return of sieges and siege-like tactics” in southwestern Syria – an area where Russian-backed government forces waged a campaign to snuff out a rebel-held pocket in the city of Deraa.
At least 243 people were killed or maimed in seven car bomb attacks in the rebel-held towns of Afrin and Ras al-Ain north of Aleppo, though the full toll was considerably higher, it said.
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