Pejuang Free Syrian Army menggali parit di kawasan Jabal al-Akrad di barat laut wilayah Latakia Syria, 4 September, 2013 (Free Syrian Army fighters dig trenches at the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province, September 4, 2013 (Reuters/Khattab Abdulaa - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani - Sekurang-kurangnya 190 orang terbunuh dan lebih 200 tebusan oleh pemberontak Syria dibiayai oleh penderma Teluk swasta dalam 4 Ogos serangan tentera di Latakia governorate, menurut satu laporan Human Rights Watch.
Sekurang-kurangnya 67 mangsa dilaksanakan telah menetap di Negara-Negara Berkecuali kerajaan kampung Alawi, HRW berkata dalam laporan itu,” Anda Masih Boleh Lihat darah mereka,” yang dikeluarkan hari Jumaat, yang menyaksikan peristiwa-peristiwa sebagai bukti pertama yang dirancang jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan yang dilakukan oleh kuasa pembangkang.
Pembunuhan berlaku apabila kuasa-kuasa Presiden Bashar Assad, telah terharu dengan militan, yang kemudiannya memasuki 10 kampung berdekatan Alawi, kadang-kadang pembundaran sehingga dan dilaksanakan seluruh keluarga, di samping mengambil yang lain tebusan.
Penyeksaan dan pemenggalan leher juga bukti kepada sifat lebih teruk daripada serangan tentera, bukti yang telah dikumpulkan oleh HRW melalui laporan, kenyataan saksi, rekod hospital dan bahan-bahan yang dicatatkan oleh pemberontak diri mereka sendiri.
Syria extremists financed by private Gulf donors carried
out mass killings – HRW
At least 190 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage by Syrian rebels financed by private Gulf donors in an August 4 military offensive in the Latakia governorate, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
At least 67 of the victims executed had lived in government-aligned Alawite villages, HRW said in its report, “You Can Still See Their Blood,” released Friday, which saw the events as the first evidence of planned crimes against humanity perpetrated by opposition forces.
The killings took place when President Bashar Assad’s forces were overwhelmed by the militants, who then proceeded to enter the 10 Alawite villages nearby, sometimes rounding up and executing entire families, while taking others hostage.
Torture and decapitations were also testament to the aggravated nature of the military offensive, proof of which was gathered by HRW through reports, witness statements, hospital records and materials recorded by the rebels themselves.
HRW Syria dan Lebanon penyelidik, Lana Fakih, memberitahu Reuters bahawa “rumah telah musnah dan dibakar. Kebanyakan penduduk kampung telah tidak dikembalikan.” Dia bercakap dengan Hassan Shebli, yang tua dan orang kurang upaya isteri anak 23 tahun telah ditembak mati dan dikebumikan di sebelah rumah beliau, kerana beliau mendapati apabila pulang ke kampung beliau. Penyerang mengambil video dan ditimbulkan dengan mangsa2 mereka sebelum pembunuhan.
Menurut badan pemantau hak asasi manusia, alam semula jadi, skala dan penyelarasan penyelewengan dan pembunuhan mengangkat mereka kepada status jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan. Pemangku pengarah Timur Tengah pada HRW, Joe Stork, menjelaskan bahawa "ini penyelewengan tidak tindakan pejuang penyangak . . . operasi ini adalah diselaraskan, serangan terancang terhadap penduduk awam di kampung-kampung Alawi.”
HRW’s Syria and Lebanon researcher, Lana Fakih, told Reuters that “homes were destroyed and burned. Most villagers had not returned.” She spoke to Hassan Shebli, whose elderly wife and disabled 23-year-old son were gunned down and buried next to his home, as he found upon his return to his village. The assailants took videos and posed with their victims before the killings.
According to the human rights watchdog, the nature, scale and coordination of the abuses and killings elevate them to the status of crimes against humanity. Acting Middle East director at HRW, Joe Stork, explained that “these abuses were not the actions of rogue fighters…this operation was a coordinated, planned attack on the civilian population in these Alawite villages.”
Satu pandangan di dalam sebuah rumah yang rosak selepas apa yang aktivis katakan, adalah satu serangan udara oleh pasukan yang setia kepada Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad di bandar Salma, Latakia governorate 16 Ogos 2013 (A view inside a damaged house after what activists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Salma town, Latakia governorate August 16, 2013 (Reuters/Khattab Abdulaa - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Serangan itu didapati telah dirancang dan dijalankan oleh 5 kumpulan yang berbeza, termasuk Jabhat Al-Qaeda berkaitan al-Nusra dan Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant, serta jihad yang berasal dari luar Syria.
Walau bagaimanapun, serangan yang lebih luas, yang berlangsung sehingga 18 Ogos, dianggap termasuk 20 kumpulan yang berbeza.
Operasi ini telah digagalkan oleh kuasa kerajaan pada hari itu, selepas mendapatkan semula kawalan di kawasan ini.
Walaupun laporan itu tidak dapat mengesahkan kehadiran pejuang dari Barat bersandarkan Free Syria Army, komander pasukan itu, Salim Idris, mencatatkan video seminggu selepas serangan Latakia di mana beliau mendakwa FSA mengambil bahagian dalam operasi “ke tahap yang dahsyat.”
Kumpulan lain bongkaknya tentang eksploitasi mereka dalam rakaman mereka sendiri, yang digunakan oleh HRW untuk menyokong penemuan, walaupun pemberontak sendiri juga menceritakan serangan kepada wartawan dari Reuters, mendakwa telah membunuh kira-kira 200 orang.
Walau bagaimanapun, tidak semua kumpulan dimasukkan ke dalam pembunuhan tersebut. Seorang ahli Sunni Ahrar al-Asham militia mendakwa bahawa pejuang itu hanya menembak dalam diri, walaupun kumpulan itu adalah antara 5 yang didapati telah mengambil bahagian dalam pembunuhan Latakia .
Jurucakap Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria, Khaled Saleh juga mengutuk serangan itu dan berkata bahawa jika apa-apa penyalahgunaan oleh pemberontak yang dikaitkan dengan gabungan itu didapati telah berlaku di Latakia, pelaku akan dibawa ke muka pengadilan.
“Kami pernah melakukan diri kita untuk memohon peraturan-peraturan ke atas semua briged yang bekerja untuk kami dan kami akan mengadakan bertanggungjawab, selepas penyiasatan dan perbicaraan yang adil, semua mereka yang bertanggungjawab untuk pelanggaran terhadap hak asasi manusia atau undang-undang antarabangsa. Kejadian di Latakia tidak terkecuali dan kami akan melayan mereka seperti yang kita rawat kes sebelum ini,” kata Saleh dalam satu kenyataan bertulis kepada Reuters.
The attacks were found to have been planned and carried out by five distinct groups, including the Al- Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as well as jihadists originating from outside Syria.
However, the broader offensive, which lasted until August 18, was thought to include 20 distinct groups.
The operation was thwarted by government forces on that day, after regaining control of the area.
Although the report could not confirm the presence of fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, the force’s commander, Salim Idriss, posted a video a week after the Latakia attacks in which he claimed the FSA participated in the operation “to a great extent.”
Other groups boasted about their exploits in their own recordings, used by HRW to corroborate its findings, although the rebels themselves also recounted the offensive to correspondents from Reuters, claiming to have killed about 200 people.
However, not all the groups admitted to the killings. A member of the Sunni Ahrar al-Asham militia claimed that his fighters only shoot in self-defense, although the group was among the five that were found to have participated in the Latakia killings.
The Syrian National Coalition’s spokesman, Khaled Saleh, also condemned the attacks and said that if any abuses by rebels associated with the coalition were found to have happened in Latakia, the perpetrators would be brought to justice.
"We have previously committed ourselves to applying these rules on all the brigades that work for us and we will hold accountable, after investigation and fair trial, all those responsible for violations against human rights or international laws. The incidents in Latakia are not an exception and we will treat them as we treated previous case,” Saleh said in a written statement to Reuters.
Asap naik selepas apa yang aktivis katakan telah serangan oleh pasukan yang setia kepada Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad di kampung Dourit, di Latakia desa 17 Ogos 2013 (Smoke rises after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the village of Dourit, in Latakia countryside August 17, 2013 (Reuters/Khattab Abdulaa - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Walau bagaimanapun, berpuluh-puluh akaun saksi dari wilayah kekal, bersama-sama dengan rakaman yang ditembak oleh pemberontak, sebagai peringatan ngeri hukuman mati dijalankan pada 4 Ogos. Penduduk kembali melaporkan penemuan mayat orang tersayang bertaburan di jalan-jalan, yang terletak bersebelahan dengan rumah mereka, serta mayat hangus berbaring dalam kubur besar-besaran.
Organisasi ini juga ingin menunjukkan bahawa laporan itu adalah tidak bererti perpindahan dari meneliti sendiri pencabulan hak asasi manusia kerajaan Syria - termasuk pengeboman kelompok mazhab kawasan Sunni pada bulan Mei, seperti yang dilaporkan oleh pegawai PBB.
Laporan itu mencadangkan bahawa Majlis Keselamatan PBB mengenakan sekatan ke atas membekalkan senjata kepada semua pihak yang terbabit dalam penyalahgunaan sistematik hak asasi manusia dan menjalankan serangan yang dirancang, yang diklasifikasikan sebagai satu jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan. Organisasi ini juga mencadangkan merujuk segala durhaka ke Mahkamah Jenayah Antarabangsa di Hague.
Stork , Timur Tengah Ketua HRW, berkata: “mangsa jenayah perang Syria dan jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan telah menunggu terlalu lama untuk Majlis Keselamatan untuk menghantar mesej yang jelas bahawa mereka yang bertanggungjawab untuk penyalahgunaan dahsyat akan diadakan untuk akaun.”
“Rujukan ICC lama tertangguh,” kata Stork.
Perang saudara, yang kini dalam tahun yang ke-3, telah meragut nyawa lebih daripada 100,000 orang, menurut anggaran PBB. Ramai pakar-pakar bimbang bahawa sifat mazhab dan kepentingan bercanggah kumpulan pemberontak yang terlibat diburukkan lagi oleh pembiayaan di luar, dan kini beralih ke Syria sarang ekstremisme hanyut lebih jauh daripada mana-mana resolusi yang pelakon luar mungkin telah dirancang untuk itu.
Nonetheless, dozens of witness accounts from the province remain, together with footage shot by rebels, as a gruesome reminder of the executions carried out on August 4. Returning residents reported finding the bodies of loved ones strewn around the streets, lying next to their homes, as well as charred corpses lying in mass graves.
The organization also wished to point out that the report is by no means a move away from scrutinizing the Syrian government’s own human rights abuses – including sectarian cluster bombings of Sunni areas in May, as reported By UN officials.
The report proposes that the UN Security Council imposes an embargo on supplying arms to all sides implicated in the systematic abuse of human rights and the carrying out of planned attacks, which is classified as a crime against humanity. The organization also proposed referring all transgressions to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Stork, HRW’s Middle East chief, said: “Syrian victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity have waited too long for the Security Council to send a clear message that those responsible for horrible abuses will be held to account.”
“The ICC referral is long overdue,” Stork said.
The civil war, now in its third year, has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, according to UN estimates. Many experts fear that the sectarian nature and conflicting interests of the rebel groups involved are exacerbated by outside funding, and are turning Syria into a hotbed of extremism drifting further away from any resolution that outside actors may have planned for it.
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