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He prioritizes war. He spurns peace. He's an unindicted war criminal. In 2011, he destroyed Libya. He's ravaging Syria now. HRC blames Assad for his crimes.
Its report includes baseless accusations. They charge Assad with forced displacements, razing neighborhoods, looting homes, torture, rapes, denying medical care, targeting doctors and other hospital personnel, persecuting anti-government opponents, and continuing hostilities across Syria.
"Government forces continue to focus their military operations on securing major towns and cities, intensifying shelling and airstrikes on anti-Government armed groups' strongholds," it says.
Omitted was saying it's done defensively. Assad's obligated to do so. Syria was invaded. Other leaders would respond the same way. Failure would be grossly irresponsible.
HRC claimed bombing, shelling, and missile attacks "caused widespread damage to residential neighborhoods." It blamed Assad for deaths caused by insurgents.
They're Western-recruited death squads. Their mandate is kill, kill, kill. They commit gruesome atrocities. Eye-witness survivors confirm it. HRC won't cite them.
It didn't explain. It glossed over insurgent crimes. They're too grave to ignore. It did so anyway.
Targeting Assad is prioritized. He's blamed for "extrajudicial killings, beatings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests," and other high crimes.
Uncorroborated reports claim his forces "steal from civilian houses while conducting ground searches."
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