ICC chief prosecutor meets Syria’s de facto leader

ICC’s Karim Khan makes unannounced sojourn to Damascus for talks connected ‘accountability for alleged crimes’.

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) main authoritative has made an unannounced sojourn to Syria to conscionable with Ahmad al-Sharaa, the person of Syria’s caller de facto government, to sermon however to guarantee accountability for alleged crimes committed successful the country.

Prosecutor Karim Khan met al-Sharaa and Syria’s overseas curate connected Friday to sermon options for justness astatine the ICC for victims of the country’s 13-year war.

A connection from Khan’s bureau said helium “travelled to Damascus astatine the invitation of the Syrian Transitional Government”.

It said the sojourn aimed to sermon however the bureau “can connection its concern successful enactment of the efforts of Syrian authorities towards accountability for alleged crimes committed successful the country”.

The ICC, which has 125 subordinate states, is the world’s imperishable tribunal to prosecute individuals for alleged warfare crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression.

Opposition fighters with al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led a lightning violative that toppled President Bashar al-Assad past month, and the radical has go the de facto ruling enactment successful the country.

Al-Assad, who fled to Russia successful December, waged an oppressive run against opponents during his much than 2 decades successful power.

Human rights groups estimated that tens of thousands of people went missing aft antigovernment protests began successful 2011 with galore disappearing into al-Assad’s situation network. Many of them were apt killed, either successful wide executions oregon from torture and situation conditions. The nonstop fig remains unknown.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the planetary chemic weapons watchdog, recovered Syrian forces were liable for aggregate attacks utilizing chlorine state and different banned substances against civilians.

Other groups person besides been accused of quality rights violations and warfare crimes during the country’s war.

The caller authorities person called for members of al-Assad’s authorities to beryllium brought to justice. It is unclear however precisely that would enactment astatine this stage.

Syria is not a subordinate of the ICC, which has near the tribunal without the quality to analyse the war. In 2014, Russia and China blocked a referral by the United Nations Security Council that would person fixed the tribunal jurisdiction. Similar referrals were made for Sudan and Libya.

Khan’s sojourn comes aft a travel to Damascus past period by the UN organisation assisting successful investigating the astir superior crimes successful Syria.

The International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria was created to assistance successful evidence-gathering and prosecution of individuals liable for imaginable warfare crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide since Syria’s warfare began successful 2011.

More than fractional a cardinal radical were killed successful the warfare and much than six cardinal others fled the country.

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