International Commission of Inquiry on Syria overlooks crimes of terrorist groups

Syria’s Permanent Representative to UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari invited Chairman of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro to view the crisis unfolding in Syria from a wider perspective just for calling things by their names in order to tackle the roots of the problem, instead of approaching it from a one-sided perspective.

Speaking during a UN General Assembly session to discuss human rights in Syria, Dr. al-Jaafari said ” The Commission of Inquiry on Syria is still deliberately blowing things out of proportion when displaying its findings, also fully disregarding or downplaying core issues.”

”There are blood-curdling scenes that flagrantly contravene the Syrians’ dignity and human rights regarding the crimes of the armed terrorist groups, ranging from eating human flesh, cutting throats, mutilating bodies, beheadings on sectarian and confessional grounds, throwing bodies from rooftops to committing hundreds of suicide bombings using car bombs in populated areas, recruiting children, abducting and slaughtering clergymen, assassinating scholars in mosques, issuing instigative fatwas on ‘sexual jihad’, killing children on the charges of infidelity, robbing factories and transporting them to Turkey,” al-Jaafari said.

Dr. al-Jaafari reiterated that the Syrian government will do everything in its power to supply the inquiry commission with all the confirmed information it has for the sake of forging a neutral and independent vision that helps the commission fulfill its commitments and duties.

”How could the international community allow the Saudi, Qatari and Turkish regimes to sponsor fundamentalist terrorism publicly? And how could Western governments which had suffered from terrorism accept to sponsor and support that terrorism?” al-Jaafari queried.

”Saudi Arabia’s latest feat in Ramadan was the purchase of Israeli arms worth USD 50 millions to be shipped to the armed terrorist groups in Syria…which we hope will be the last one during Ramadan,” Dr. al-Jaafari added.

”No sooner was an agreement announced between the Syrian government and the United Nations than the armed terrorist groups entered Khan al-Assal and committed a massacre against civilians and soldiers there to eliminate the witnesses who could have testified against the ones who used chemical weapons there,” Syria’s Permanent Representative to UN said.

Al-Jaafari pointed out that the world followed with great interest testimony of member of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Carla del Ponte, in which she confirmed the use of Sarin gas by the armed terrorist groups in Khan al-Assal in Aleppo. ”Hours later, pressure built on the Commission’s chairperson which pushed him to issue a statement challenging del Ponte’s findings.”

”That said, how could we trust the Committee’s work and professionalism?” al-Jaafari asked.