VIENNA (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki- moon says Syria’s relentless attacks on civilians could amount to crimes against humanity.
The comment is significant because such crimes usually involve mass atrocities against innocent people and sweeping crackdowns on their human rights.
U. N. human rights chief Navi Pillay first used the term Monday, as she criticized Syria’s expanding crackdown on civilian protesters and said the U.N. Security Council’s failure to agree on how to stop the violence is encouraging the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In Vienna today, Ban spoke of “ neighborhoods shelled indiscriminately, hospitals used as torture centers, children as young as 10 years old chained and abused. We see almost a certain crime against humanity.”
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