#UN: Growing #executions by Syrian rebels a war crime
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Rebels groups in #syria are committing a “soaring” number of executions in the country’s north that could amount to war crimes, the U.N. #Human_Rights office announced in a statement released on Thursday. “In the past two weeks, we have received reports of a succession of mass executions of civilians and fighters who were no longer participating in hostilities in Aleppo, Idlib and Raqqa by hardline armed opposition groups in Syria, in particular by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said. read more