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A United Nations probe on Wednesday said that lashings, amputations, mock crucifixion and public executions are all regularly performed in extremist-controlled parts of Syria, and accused the Syrian government of using chemical agents on civilians repeatedly.
“Executions in public spaces have become a common spectacle on Fridays” in Syrian territory controlled by extremist group Islamic State (IS), the independent Commission of Inquiry on the human rights situation in Syria said.
The latest report by the four-member commission details several horrors committed by IS extremists, including the beheading of minors, lashings and amputations in public with residents and their children forced to watch.
The IS “seeks to destroy and remould humanity in its image, wreaking havoc on civilians, minorities and the basic freedoms of women and children”, the commission’s head Paulo Pinheiro said.
He also described how the bodies of the dead were put on public display, “creating an atmosphere of fear and terror”.
However, Pinheiro said that IS “does not have the monopoly of brutality in the Syrian conflict”.
In the report, 45 pages long and covering the time period between January 20th and July 15th, the commission detailed several war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by other armed opposition groups as well as the Syrian government.
The Syrian government was, for the first few years of the conflict, criticized vocally for its deaths and abuses. Since January, it has continued to kill hundreds every week because of the “indiscriminate firing of missiles and barrel bombs into civilian areas”, the commission said in the report.
The commission also said that the Syrian government seems to have dropped barrel bombs filled with chemical agent Chlorine in civilian areas in the northern part of the country on eight separate occasions in April.
“Reasonable grounds exist to believe that chemical agents, likely chlorine, were used on (northern Syrian villages) Kafr Zeita, al-Tamana and Tal Minnis in eight incidents within a 10-day period in April”, the report said.
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