JEDDAH: The killing of hundreds of civilians in the Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghoutha is a war crime, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said.
The OIC’s Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission said the targeting of non-combatants breaches Islamic teaching and is a violation of international human rights law.
The commission echoed an appeal by the UN Secretary General that “to stop this hell on earth” and called on the Security Council to halt the “colossal human suffering.”
A “humanitarian pause” to allow aid deliveries and the evacuation of the sick and wounded is needed immediately, it said.
The OIC has described the Syrian conflict as the “worst humanitarian and refugee disaster of our time.” Fighting in the country in the past seven years has left more than half a million people dead and 10 million homeless.
Syrian killing of civilians a ‘war crime,’ says OIC
Updated 02 March 2018
Syrian killing of civilians a ‘war crime,’ says OIC
