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Syrians cast their ballots at a polling stations in Damascus as voting began across Syria for an election where few doubt that President Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a fourth term. IMAGES
With Aleppo under a daytime ceasefire, the United Nations is warning that the ongoing seige and bombardment of the city may constitute war crimes. Nathan Frandino reports.
The top United Nations human rights official, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, said on Friday that the siege and bombing of eastern Aleppo in Syria amounted to war crimes although he did not specifically name Russia, whose war planes have carried out weeks of air strikes on the rebel-held part of Aleppo along with the Syrian air force. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The United States says that Sudan's rival forces have both committed war crimes in their brutal conflict, accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The two sides "must end this brutal conflict... must comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, international human rights law," says State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. SOUNDBITE
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accuses Israel of war crimes and "genocide" in Gaza, as he chaired an extraordinary summit of the BRICS group of nations on Tuesday. Pretoria is hosting a virtual meeting of BRICS, a group of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, aimed at drawing up a common response to the Israel-Hamas conflict. IMAGES
"We are concerned that war crimes are being committed. We are concerned about the collective punishment of Gazans in response to the atrocious attacks by Hamas, which also amounted to war crimes," UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani says during a press conference in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
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