Following the report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic on war crimes in Northern Syria, 68 MEPs have written a letter to the EP president.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brussels,\u00a0October 19, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To M. Davide Sassoli,President of the European Parliament
M. Sassoli,
We, the Members of the European Parliament, take note of the recent United Nations Report of the Independent Internationale Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, which was presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the 14th August 2020.
The report states that there are clear and evidential violations of human rights in North-Syria. These violations are (among others) conducted by the Turkish auxiliary forces such as \u201cthe Suleiman Shah Brigade\u201d, \u201cthe Hamza Brigade\u201d or \u201cthe Sultan Murad Brigade\u201d. These groups hold power in the Afrin-Al Bab region as well as in the Tal Abyad-Serekaniye region.
Victims of these violations complain about various atrocities ranging from rape and sexual violence to abductions and extrajudicial killing etc. The, mostly Kurdish, victims who could flee from these atrocities are currently located in the regions of the Autonomous\u00a0Administration of North-East Syria (AANES).
We demand that the Turkish government ceases its political, economic, and military support for all groups who are part of these systematic human rights violations. We are\u00a0calling on the Turkish military and their auxiliary forces to end their illegal occupation in North-Syria and retreat from the region.
Therefore, we call on the President of the European Parliament to form a special\u00a0delegation of elected parliamentarians to travel to the regions of the Autonomous\u00a0Administration of North-East Syria as soon as the corona-related travel restrictions are lifted and health concerns while traveling no longer exist. The goal of sending a delegation\u00a0on the spot is to gather further information on the situation, start a dialogue with the political\u00a0body of the AANES, and to engage in talks with people who fled the contested areas under Turkish occupation. This would allow to investigate the UNHRC reports and to identify possible responsible figures of these atrocities, to start prosecutions within the framework of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Members of the European ParliamentALFONSI Francois (Greens\/EFA); ANDREWS Barry (Renew); ARENA Maria (S&D); AUKEN Margrete (Greens\/EFA); BARRENA Pernando (GUE\/NGL); BELLAMY Francois-Xavier (EPP); BENIFEI Brando (S&D); BITEAU Benoit (Greens\/EFA); BJ\u00d6RK Malin\u00a0(GUE\/NGL); BOMPARD Manuel (GUE\/NGL); BRGLEZ Milan (S&D); BULLMANN Udo (S&D); CAREME Damien (Greens\/EFA); CASTALDO Fabio Massimo (NI); CHAIBI Leila (GUE\/NGL); CHRISTOFOROU Lefteris (EPP); CIUHODARU Tudor (S&D); COMIN I\u00a0OLIVERES Antoni (NI); CORMAND David (Greens\/EFA); DELBOS-CORFIELD\u00a0Gwendoline (Greens\/EFA); DELLI Karima (Greens\/EFA); GEUKING Helmut (ECR);\u00a0GRUFFAT Claude (Greens\/EFA); GUSM\u00c3O Jos\u00e9 (GUE\/NGL); HAUTALA Heidi (Greens\/EFA); HEIDE Hannes (S&D); INCIR Evin (S&D); JADOT\u00a0Yannick (Greens\/EFA); KAILI Eva (S&D); KANKO Assita (ECR); KIZILY\u00dcREK Niyazi\u00a0(GUE\/NGL); KOKKALIS Petros (GUE\/NGL); KONE\u010cN\u00c1 Kate\u0159ina (GUE\/NGL); K\u00d6STER\u00a0Dietmar (S&D); MANDL Lukas (PPE); MARQUARDT Erik (Greens\/EFA); MATIAS Marisa (GUE\/NGL); MAVRIDES Costas (S&D); MICHELS Martina (GUE\/NGL); MODIG Silvia (GUE\/NGL); PAPADAKIS Demetris (S&D); PAPADIMOULIS Dimitrios (GUE\/NGL); PINEDA Manu (GUE\/NGL); PONSATI Clara (NI); PUIGDEMONT Carles (NI); REGO Sira(GUE\/NGL); RIBA I GINER Diana (Greens\/EFA); RIVASI Mich\u00e8le (Greens\/EFA); RODR\u00cdGUEZ PALOP Eugenia (GUE\/NGL); ROOKMAKER Dorien (NI); ROOSE Caroline (Greens\/EFA); SANTOS Isabel (S&D); SATOURI Mounir (Greens\/EFA); SCHIEDER Andreas (S&D); SCHOLZ Helmut (GUE\/NGL); SIDL Guenther (S&D); SIN\u010cI\u0106 Ivan Vilibor (NI); SMERIGLIO Massimiliano (S&D); SONNEBORN Martin (NI); STRIK Tineke\u00a0(Greens\/EFA); TOUSSAINT Marie (Greens\/EFA); URBAN CRESPO Miguel (GUE\/NGL); VANA Monika (Greens\/EFA); VILLUMSEN Nikolaj (GUE\/NGL); VOLLATH Bettina (S&D); YENBOU Salima (Greens\/EFA); \u017dDANOKA Tatjana (Greens\/EFA); ZVER Milan (PPE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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