MSDThe Syrian crisis is classified as one of the most complex crises witnessed in the Middle East, which is full of crises, armed conflicts and, and the people of the region are always victims in their various configurations and formations.
The Syrian crisis entered its tenth year without a looming solution coming soon, as all international efforts to accomplish a meaningful political process failed, and successive ceasefire and armistice efforts to save civilian lives were only partially limited.
A report by the Arab Organization for Human Rights indicates the extent of the suffering that the Syrians are suffering as a result of the ongoing conflict, with the civilians are still the primary victim of the armed conflict in Syria.
* They are not just numbers *
The Syrian authorities refused to cooperate with Arab and international human rights organizations, continued to pursue Syrian jurists, and rejected the activity of local human rights organizations that these authoritied did not recognize in the first place. The armed opposition and terrorist groups opposing it also participated in killing, kidnapping, and prosecution of Syrian human rights activists.
The documentary and analytical report of the Arab Organization for Human Rights states that the absence of human rights organizations prevented the availability of sufficient documentation for grave violations committed in the context of the ongoing conflict, especially with regard to torture, enforced disappearance and detainees without legal guarantees and carrying out adequate monitoring of unfair trials.
As a result, the report adds, parties to the conflict have been implicated in atrocities against civilians amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, most of which have a moral component (criminal intent), and justice has remained a concept absent from the situation in Syria, despite its amazing repercussions on global conditions.
* Proxy wars *
A regional and international war are managed on Syrian geography. According to the observers, this war is fueled at the expense of Syrians and the infrastructure of their country. According to the report of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, direct military intervention constituted a turning point in the field and political situation, and undermined the hopes that were held that a Russian-American understanding would contribute to imposing an end to the conflict and start of a settlement path, but that direct intervention added to the situation enormous complications despite the scenes and statements that accompanied the meetings of the two parties in order to reach an understanding in light of their direct interventions.
Besides, the regional intervention had a great impact on deepening the wounds of the Syrians, especially the Turkish intervention and occupation.Besides, Iranian participation alongside the Syrian government forces.
The parties did not stop contradicting their declarations and pledges by providing unlimited forms of support, directly and indirectly, to the belligerents in a manner that transformed the conflict into a proxy war, and contributed to fueling violence and undermining the chances of a settlement.
* The neighbor … the enemy *
The organization’s report examines the unlimited shifts in Turkish policy whose priorities have shifted from supporting anti-regime armed groups to taking other measures aimed at hampering the achievement of the SDF in fighting the terrorist organization ISIS, specifically after the SDF received unlimited international support, in particular by the major powers, foremost among them are the United States of America and the International Alliance.
The report lists how Turkey moved from a state of rivalry with the SDF to direct hostility by occupying the areas of Syria that were under the control of the SDF after their liberation from the ISIS terrorist organization. At the beginning of 2018, the Turkish state occupied the Kurdish-majority Afrin region, and then occupied the border strip from the city of Sri Kaniye / Ras al-Ain to Tal Abyad sub-district in the countryside of Raqqa.
* Syrians … mercenaries and enemies *
The state of international interventions and alignments has resulted in Syrian military and political entities and formations that are far from the values of Syrian society, as mentioned in the report of the Arab Organization for Human Rights; the continued dissolution of anti-government armed groups, the splits in their ranks, their reshaping, and emergence of hundreds of them, had a major impact on the failure of victims and survivors to accurately identify potential perpetrators.
These armed groups adopted extremist ideas, specifically those associated with the Turkish state, and committed atrocities in both Afrin and other Syrian regions occupied by Turkey, as well as using them as mercenaries in wars outside the Syrian borders in terms of Turkey’s expansionist interests.
Despite the efforts made in various stations to launch a path of political and peaceful settlement of the situation that has become the worst in the world and requires intensifying efforts to end the catastrophe that the Syrians have been living in for nine years
