Aleppo Is a ‘Slaughterhouse,’ Says U.N. Official Seeking War Crimes Inquiry - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/world/middleeast/syira-aleppo-un.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur
« UN human rights chief calls bombing and siege of of Aleppo “#crimes_of_historic_proportions.” » (whatever that means)
GENEVA — The top United Nations human rights official on Friday called the weekslong bombardment and siege of rebel-held parts of Aleppo “crimes of historic proportions” that had turned the ancient Syrian city into a “slaughterhouse.”
As a “humanitarian pause” in attacks, declared unilaterally by Russia, entered a second day — and as the besieged rebel-held eastern side of the city had a respite from the Syrian and Russian airstrikes that have devastated the area — the United Nations official, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, called for a war crimes investigation.