A United Nations investigator team has testified on the situation in Syria before the UN Security Council, confirming that both the Assad government and the Western-backed rebels have been committing widespread war crimes in the increasingly ugly civil war.
The team urged the Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to enable prosecutions of war criminals on both sides of the conflict. The team included former UN prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who insisted that the courts had to be involved.
Syria is not a party to the Rome Statute of the ICC, and so the courts can only be involved if the UN Security Council charges them with doing so. This also means such an effort could be vetoed.
Which is entirely possible, as Russia has repeatedly rejected moves that might lead to escalated international involvement in the Syrian Civil War, while Western nations are likely to object if both sides are held equally accountable, concerned it might undermine their efforts at regime change.
The UN is a joke. All the violence could have been over now if the rebels had agreed to free and fair elections, but that would not be in Washington's best interests.
But it was not the Syrian government who started the war.., UN should go after those who start a war and those whom are forced to defend their people.., that is to say.., the Syrian people are defended by the Syrian government against the us, EU, Saudis and UAE mercenaries. If UN is looking for evidence that these terrorists are nothing but hired mercenaries they should look more into the bank account which pays these terrorists salaries.
War crime.., George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, the present US and EU governments hand in hand with Saudis and UAE are war criminals.., any question.
This is the same rubbish the UN stated about Libya. It's a way to lay the blame on the Syrian government which is a body that has international obligations whereas the terrorists are… terrorists.