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Qamishlo (Qamishli)- Hegemonic states have made plans about Syria according to their own interests while ISIS and Al Qaeda keep committing genocidal crimes against people in Syria by using different names.

They have committed many crimes against humanity in Syria for years and keep doing so. The crimes committed by them are covered up and legitimized by the media of the Syrian interim government in the name of “Islam”.

Following the genocidal attacks against the Alawites in Syria’s coastal areas, attacks on the Druze majority city of Sweida started, killing and injuring many civilians. Despite these crimes, the perpetrators have gone unpunished.

In an interview with NuJINHA, Ceylan Hemê, a lawyer in Qamishlo, condemned the crimes committed by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria and the silence of the international community against the attacks on ethnic and religious identities of Syria.

Ceylan Hemê thinks that Syrian interim president Abu Mohammad al-Julani is not a solution for the future of the country, calling him “a terrorist having a new position”. Speaking about the recent crimes committed in the country, she said, “Syria has been left abandoned, divided by armed groups.”

Ceylan Hemê accused the Syrian interim government of implementing the practices of ISIS in the country, drawing attention to crimes committed against Alawite and Druze women. “In recent months, crimes against humanity have been committed against the Alawite and Druze communities. The crimes committed against women are the crimes against humanity.”

The crimes committed in Syria’s coastal areas and city of Sweida are a new chain of organized crimes, Ceylan Hemê emphasized. “These crimes are the continuation of the crimes committed against other identities such as the Yazidis and the Kurds in Kobanê, Efrin and Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ayn). New groups having the same mindset have carried out the same scenarios and attacks to kill, torture and displace people from different ethnic and religious identities. According to the Rome Statute, these are crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

The Responsibility to Protect, known as R2P or RtoP, was adopted in 2005 at the UN World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. “According to the Responsibility to Protect, each individual state has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity and if any state is manifestly failing in its protection responsibilities, then states should take collective action to protect the population. However, the Responsibility to Protect has neither been implemented nor activated. It was not implemented in Shengal (Sinjar), Afrin and it is not implemented in Sweida now.”

Ceylan Hemê also accused some regional and international actors of being a party to the crimes committed in Syria. “Their silence against these crimes makes them a party to these crimes.”

‘The system of the AANES is a good model for Syria’

Ceylan Hemê thinks that the system implemented by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) is a good model for all Syria. A decentralized system must be implemented in Syria in order to protect the rights of all ethnic and religious identities of Syria.”