UN: Let's not allow a new Srebrenica to happen in Syria

The UN Security Council should act unanimously when it comes to the difficult situation in Syria, before a genocide like the one committed in Srebrenica takes place in that country.

This was warned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pilaj.

"The memories of what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be fresh enough to warn us all how dangerous it would be to allow Syria to fall into a sectarian conflict of such proportions," Pilaj said, as reported by Reuters.

"I call on the Security Council to act unanimously, in order to send a strong message,"

"One cannot justify the use of heavy weapons used by state forces to destroy entire neighborhoods, nor the use of powerful bombs used by extremist opposition groups to kill and maim civilians and soldiers."

Pillay, who was a UN war crimes judge, reiterated that the violence being carried out by both sides in Syria "could be characterized as war crimes or crimes against humanity," according to AFP.

"We cannot justify the use of heavy weapons resorted to by state forces in the destruction of entire neighborhoods in cities such as Homs and Aleppo, nor can the use of powerful bombs used by extremist opposition groups to kill and maim civilians and soldiers," said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. .