The chairman of the Arab Parliament has demanded the League of Arab States and the United Nations "urgently" open a lawsuit in front of the International Criminal Tribunal Court to sue the Syrian Regime for "war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity".

Ali Salem al-Daqbasi said: "The evidence is clear and the national and global duty imposed on the Arab League and the United Nations to expedite the referral of crimes of the Syrian regime to the International Criminal Tribunal, so that the blood of the martyrs won't go in vain.

"The Syrian officials responsible for these crimes should be trialed, as happened with those responsible for war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s."

In a press conference in Cairo, Daqbasi called on all parties of the Syrian opposition that will meet in Cairo on May 16 and 17 to "unify their positions and rise above the differences that will only benefit the Syrian regime to work to split the unity of its ranks and continue the killing of the Syrian people who are defending their freedom and dignity that it will get no matter how long.

He added: "In light of the failure of the task and plan of Kofi Annan, the joint envoy of the UN and the Arab League for the ceasefire in Syria despite the deployment of a number of international observers in an attempt to reduce the rising violence against the Syrian people, the brutality of the regime and and its ferocity are increasing day by day and its use for heavy weapons, mortars and rockets against the Syrian people and the killing and injuring of a large number of them in all parts of Syria."

Daqbasi wondered: "Where is the right of the martyrs who fell in defense for freedom and democracy? Where is the right of orphans who were displaced? Where are we as an Arabic and Islamic nation towards the suffering of the Syrian citizens which has reached a risky stage? Will the national and global conscience wake up to save the Syrian people from the killings, displacement, raids and intimidation it is suffering from?"

The opposition accuses President Bashar al-Assad's regime of being responsible for the killing of 9,000 civilians since the beginning of the uprising against his regime in March last year.

The Syrian regime says that it is fighting "terrorist groups supported by external forces", who caused the deaths of more than 2,000 members of the security forces and the army.



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