Inquiry Commission’s report on Syria ‘biased’, says al-Hamwi

GENEVA,(ST)_Syria has criticized the report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Syria as it is based on biased and wrong information.

Syria’s Representative to the UN Human Rights Council said that the Inquiry commission on Human Rights in Syria, deliberately, turns blind eye to the Syrian government’s documents and shed lights on biased information received from parties linked to the armed terrorist groups.

Dr.Faisal al-Hamwi said: “the commission has confessed that it conducted hundreds of interviews in the field or through skype with what it called “anti-government” eye-witnesses only inside Syria and abroad. It did not interview eye- witnesses,, who are not anti-government. So these witnesses based on the vision of one side are not credible and cannot be an evidence.”

“It doesn’t frankly refer to Qatar and Turkey”

The commission underscored that some states are funding the armed groups, but it did not mention the name of these states, Qatar on the top,in its report.

It also did not mention the name of Turkey, which has opened its border to enter weapons and mercenaries to Syria, despite the fact that the commission said that big quantity of weapons are being regularly smuggled via borders.

Deliberate ignorance

The commission, which also talked about deterioration of economic and human situation and destruction of infrastructure in Syria, did say nothing about the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front groups’ intentional attack on services establishments and infrastructure.

The Syrian representative said that the commission ignored, in its recommendations, that unjust embargo imposed by some Arab and western states is behind the deteriorating situation in Syria.

“The commission said that it was difficult to communicate with families in Syria to reach a conclusion about responsibility of armed groups for the abduction. This contradicts what it said about conducting interview with eye-witnesses inside Syria”,

He stressed that a Syrian national committee is investigating the crimes.

“If the commission insists on having the right to present recommendations encroaching the essence of international law, why it does not recommend putting Qatar and Turkey in the UN list of pro-terrorism states under the UN resolution No.1373 and other relevant resolutions?” the representative asked.

Conspiracy failed

He clarified that the main goals of the war on Syria are to fragment it and to end the Palestinian cause for Israel’s interest, asserting the failure of the conspiracy.

“Syria, which is fighting terrorism, is ready at the same time to start national dialogue among Syrian people,” al-Hamwi said.

Basma Qaddour