The children of Syria and the children of Ukraine who were killed by Putin

Reports on Ukraine

According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as a result of the Ruspa War in Ukraine, 450 children have been killed and 2,000 injured since the outbreak of the war on February 24, 2022. However, these numbers represent only the reports that the United Nations has been able to verify, and the actual losses are likely to be much higher.

Three months of war in Ukraine has displaced 4.3 million children - more than half of the country's estimated 7.5 million children. This includes more than 1.8 million children who have crossed the border into neighboring countries as refugees, and 2.5 million children who have become displaced within Ukraine.

The war has also had devastating consequences for civilian infrastructure and access to basic services

Ten years after Putin's war on the Syrian people

350,000 children were killed with various weapons

Many Syrian children, forced to flee by war, do not see a future for them in their country, as the conflict enters its 12th year.

"Twelve years of war cost children in Syria their childhood, but the world must not allow it to rob them of their future," said Jeremy Stoner, director of the organization's regional office for the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

The organization conducted a survey that included 1,900 children and those responsible for their care, from the displaced inside Syria or refugees in neighboring countries, i.e. Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and in the Netherlands, and it was found that "86 percent of refugee children do not want to return to Syria," while one child out of every three IDPs prefer to live in another country

The ongoing conflict in Syria since mid-March 2011 has killed more than 987,000 people and displaced more than six million Syrians inside the country, while about 5.6 million live in countries of asylum, including more than a million children born outside Syria, according to United nations.

The conflict has also turned the lives of children upside down. According to the United Nations Children's Fund, more than 8.5 million Syrian children depend on aid inside Syria and in neighboring countries.

Today, 60 percent of children in Syria suffer from food insecurity, and more than half of them lack education, according to the United Nations

Human rights organizations announced that they had submitted to the investigation and prosecutorial authorities in Germany, France and Sweden “additional evidence” that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons between 2013 and 2017.

The non-governmental organizations, the "Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression", the "Syrian Archive", the "Open Society Justice Initiative" and "Civil Rights Defenders" said in a joint statement that they submitted these documents "on the fifth anniversary of the sarin gas attack on In Khan Sheikhoun, this evidence includes video clips, interviews with witnesses, victims, defectors and collaborators.

In their statement, the organizations recalled that on April 4, 2017, "the tragic attack on the city of Khan Sheikhoun occurred, in which the Syrian government used sarin gas, killing more than three hundred people, including 72 children and 53 women." She added that in the first week of this month, "the fourth anniversary of the brutal chemical attack on Douma, which killed dozens of people."

According to the statement, "Khan Sheikhoun and Douma were not the first two sites in which the Syrian government used toxic chemicals against citizens, as it had previously used them in Ghouta in August-August 2013, killing more than a thousand people."

The West should bear the responsibility in Syria as in Ukraine until the West moved quickly when Russia launched a war on Ukraine.

"There is a big difference between the position adopted by the international community towards Ukraine and the position adopted for Syria," describing this as "double standards."

The Syrian people supported the Ukrainian people against the Russian attacks, but indicated that “the West must bear responsibility in Syria as in Ukraine, because the Russian intervention shifted the scales in favor of the Assad regime

The West took quick steps against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a short time, and the situation did not show the same in Syria, despite the 12 million who fled Syria

The West practices discrimination, as the international community does not care where the Syrians live,” stressing that “the West made a mistake every time it allowed Russia to use its veto, instead of condoning Russia’s crimes in Syria.”

Human Rights Watch announced in a report that the bombing of civilians by the Syrian and Russian armed forces during an attack on the last stronghold of the "resistance" in northwestern Syria may amount to crimes against humanity.

The organization stated that it is investigating dozens of "unlawful" air and ground strikes on civilian targets in the area around the city of Idlib between April 2019 and March 2020 that killed hundreds of civilians and caused the displacement of more than 1.4 million.

 

The organization said that its 167-page report, titled "Targeting Lives in Idlib", used hundreds of photos, satellite footage and aircraft monitoring records to investigate 46 incidents of bombing, which are a small part of the air strikes and bombing that targeted the area.

 

The report noted that the attacks included repeated violations that were “clear war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity.”

"They bombed hospitals, schools, markets and residential areas. Not only unintentionally, not only while trying to target so-called terrorists, but also deliberately," Kenneth Roth, executive director of the organization, told Reuters Television.

 

He added that the goal of the 11-month military campaign was "to expel civilians and make their lives unbearable in the hope of facilitating the control of the area by the Syrian and Russian armed forces."

 

Moscow and Damascus deny accusations of indiscriminate bombing of civilians in an area home to three million refugees in the nearly decade-old war. The two allies say they only target militants who are wreaking havoc in the region.

 

The organization stated that it had not received a response from the Syrian and Russian governments to a summary of its findings and inquiries

The attack on Idlib ended after a ceasefire agreement last March between Turkey and Russia, both of which support one of the two sides of the conflict.

 

The report listed the names of ten Russian and Syrian officials, including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian Vladimir Putin and their top military leaders, and said that they are "commandantly responsible" and must be held accountable.

 

"The only realization that there are repercussions for continuing this war crimes strategy is by following through and ensuring that those who are overseeing these war crimes do not go unpunished," Roth said.

 

 

He called on the West to "restrict Russia's use of its veto in the Security Council," stressing "the need for the international community to show a firm and decisive stance against Russia and the war crimes it is committing in Syria and Ukraine.

He turned his country into a cemetery and hundreds of thousands of people were killed, including 25,000 children. Millions more have been forced to flee. Various and horrific crimes - war crimes and crimes against humanity in addition to systematic torture, indiscriminate bombing and chemical attacks - all committed in the name of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and continue to this day. Syria is in ruins, so why, 10 years after the outbreak of the war, Assad is still in power?

It is a question that has many answers, but it can be summed up in one answer: the inadequacy of the international community, says the Guardian. Syria's dictator held out this long because the international community allowed it. The International Commission of Inquiry issued

The independent United Nations has dozens of reports denouncing the regime since 2011. And now in its latest report it reveals how tens of thousands of civilians have been "forcibly disappeared" by the regime, or have been subjected to "torture, sexual violence or death in detention".

Commission Chairman Paulo Pinheiro points to a collective global failure. The parties to this conflict have benefited from the selective intervention and the regrettable neglect of the international community, which has not left the Syrian family unscathed. He continued, "Syrians have paid the price because a brutal, authoritarian government unleashed crushing violence to suppress the opposition. Opportunistic foreign funding, weapons, and other forms of support to the parties

Warring men poured fuel on this fire the world was content to watch as it burns

Currently the UN reports are chasing dust. A wealth of evidence has been collected by the United Nations and European organizations, but it has not been systematically acted upon, and Assad's tyranny continues unchecked.

The Guardian analysis adds that many other factors have kept the Assad regime in power, including the refusal of Western powers to intervene by force. The pressure to do so peaked in 2013 after Assad's chemical weapons killed hundreds of people near Damascus. Fearing another catastrophe such as Iraq, the House of Commons rejected British military intervention. Days later, former US President Barack Obama and Congress followed suit. Then-leader of Britain's Labor Party, Ed Miliband, said the House of Commons spoke on behalf of the "British people"

Assad also owes his survival to an opposite instinct led by Russia and Iran. Certainly, Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to intervene militarily in 2015 saved the dictator's skin and changed the course of the war. Russian forces have been accused of war crimes as well, with Assad retaking nearly three-quarters of Syrian territory and Iranian militias playing their harsh sectarian role and civilians paying their lives, homes and futures.

Assad remains in power despite his barrel bombs on opposition neighborhoods, sarin and chlorine attacks, and air strikes on hospitals, clinics and schools that have forced more than 6 million Syrians to flee abroad. This exodus has fueled a migrant crisis across Europe, for wUntil now. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel must tackle the root cause of the migrant problem: Assad.

Assad has thrived on chaos, and on regular outside interference by Iran, Russia and Turkey as well as the armed groups that Assad claims he is fighting.

However, even after 10 years Assad is not untouched. The triumph of tyranny and impunity cannot be allowed. If there is any compensation at the end, it will most likely come in the form of legal action because this only now provides a realistic way to get him to pay for his crimes.

hich there are no humanitarian solutions

And if Russia and China continue to block the ICC in the United Nations Security Council, Britain, the United States, the European Union and other like-minded nations should unite to create an ad hoc international criminal court for Syria.

Indeed, there are precedents in the form of one-off tribunals established to try perpetrators of crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. There is no good reason not to set up such a court to try Assad and senior regime figures, as well as opposition groups and militias accused by the United Nations of war crimes.

This terrible tragedy requires reckoning. And if the government of Boris Johnson, for example, really aspires to be a global “force for good” championing human rights and universal values, then it must from now on insist, in every international forum, in every meeting with Russian, Chinese and other leaders One of the influential leaders, and at the G7 summit that she will chair this year, on the establishment of an international tribunal. The United States and other allies should do the same. The goal is justice

Justice for all those helpless, living and dead, who have suffered so badly. Justice for a nation slaughtered and betrayed in the eyes of the world. Justice, above all, for a dictator whose horrific crimes shames and degrades the world... Until Assad stands in the dock, the Syrian war will never really end.