Afrinpost
The human rights organization in the occupied Kurdish province of Afrin issued a statement on Sunday condemning the Turkish military attribution to the autonomous areas in northern and eastern Syria, delivered by its member Jihan Ali in Sardam camp, which includes thousands of displaced Afrin.
The organization said that the Turkish military invasion called the “spring of peace” came under “flimsy arguments and pretexts that have no basis and no legal document, in contravention of the Charter of the United Nations, especially Article 2, which obliges all States to respect the sovereignty of other Member States and refrain from the use of force against The territorial integrity and political independence of another State in the United Nations. ”
The organization said in a statement that “the Turkish occupation unleashed the factions loyal to it, remnants of the terrorist organization Da’esh and Jabhat al-Nusra under the name of the Syrian National Army in spreading terror among innocent civilians and committing the most heinous crimes against unarmed civilians in the world.”
Classified as war crimes, in accordance with the Charter of the Nuremberg International Military Court of 1945 and Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998, such as the deliberate killing and ill-treatment of civilians, the killing of hostages, the theft of public and private property and field executions, such as the political (Havrin Khalaf) and a number of her companions.
“Other crimes include the use of internationally prohibited weapons prohibited by the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868, as well as the degrading and ill-treatment of prisoners of war in violation of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Protocol of 1977, Articles 3 to 4 thereof, and a living example,” the statement added. On the degrading and inhuman treatment of the Turkish occupation state and the factions dealing with them to prisoners of war is what happened with the captive Çiçek Kobani, where armed groups filmed and threatened in full view of the world to slaughter and launch insults and degrading descriptions against them, contrary to the text of Article 1 4) of the Third Geneva Convention. ”
“As a human rights organization operating in northeastern Syria, we appeal to all UN and humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the international conscience, to fulfill their responsibility under international laws and covenants to intervene, monitor the treatment of prisoners, and demand their immediate release and return to their homes due to the cessation of hostilities.” In accordance with Article IV of the Third Geneva Convention, 1949.
The statement was signed by the following organizations:
- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
- Kurdish Legal Commission
- Justice Center for Human Rights 4. Association for the Defense of Threatened Peoples
- Human Rights Organization in Syria (MAF)
6- Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Austria
7 – Human Rights Committee in Syria (MAF)
8 – Mahabad Organization for Human Rights
9 – Center for Documentation of Violations in Northern Syria 10 – Kurds Without Borders Organization
11 – Yazdina Foundation for Monitoring Human Rights Violations 12 – Hevi Kurdish Society – Belgium 13 – Peace Organization for Human Rights In Geneva
14 – Yezidi Foundation
15 – Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria (Monitor) 16 – Kurdish organization for the right S Rights in Syria (DAD).
