MSDThe Syrian Democratic Council welcomes the report of the Independent International Inquiry Commission on Syria submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council at its forty-fifth session on 14 September – 2 October, 2020, and invites the commission to visit north and east Syria to verify and closely confirm validity of the allegations mentioned in the report regarding the Syrian Democratic Forces.
SDC condemns in the strongest terms all human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Syrian regime, ISIS, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and all terrorist factions associated with Turkey,
It recalls all the war crimes and ethnic cleansing crimes committed against Syrian civilians of Kurdish origins in Afrin and Ras al-Ain by terrorist factions linked to Turkey and on its orders, it also emphasizes the authenticity of the horrific violations of human rights committed by these terrorist factions systematically against Kurdish and Yazidi citizens under the supervision of Turkish officials, including murder, torture, kidnapping, death threats, extortion, detention, looting and appropriation of property, attacks on religious and archaeological sites, acts of sexual and gender-based violence and rape of women, men and underage.
The SDC expresses its deep indignation regarding all the crimes committed by the Turkish occupation state and the terrorist factions associated with it, noting that they are cutting off water in Alouk station from Hasakeh governorate and using drinking water as a tool of war against more than a million people.
The SDC considers that Turkey has become a sponsor of international terrorism and a rogue state that violates the sovereign rights of neighboring countries and the countries of the Mediterranean basin, creates chaos and conflicts through its aggressive policies, and messes around regional security and peace.
The SDC calls on the international community to take urgent and strict measures and procedures against these factions to stop their crimes against the Syrians. It calls on the Security Council to issue a resolution compelling Turkey and the terrorist factions associated with it to withdraw immediately and completely from Syrian territory, it also calls upon forming an international court for war criminals to hold the Turkish state, its officials, ISIS and terrorist factions accountable. It demands to place the occupied areas of northern Syria under the auspices of the UN peacekeepers, to send fact-finding committees to Syria to verify human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and to implement Security Council Resolution 2254 through a comprehensive and credible political process.
18 September, 2020
Syria Democratic Council
