Syria’s Assad and Russia’s Putin should be sanctioned for possible war crimes, says human-rights group
Report dentifies 10 senior civilian and military officials who it says may be implicated in crimes against humanity.
Governments should impose sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Russia’s President Putin and senior military officials for their involvement in possible war crimes in Syria’s Idlib, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
The document, entitled Targeting Life in Idlib, investigates 46 attacks between March last year and March this year that killed hundreds of civilians in the war-ravaged northern province.
It identifies 10 senior Syrian and Russian civilian and military officials, including Mr Assad and Mr Putin , who may be implicated in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the year-long campaign.
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