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)
MaliaJYy - 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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