Syrian government troops and affiliated forces committed war crimes and a crime against humanity in their long siege of eastern Ghouta through heavy bombardment and “deliberately starving” 265,000 people, U.N. investigators said on June 20.
About 20,000 rebel fighters entrenched in the besieged area, some belonging to “terrorist groups”, shelled the nearby capital of Damascus in attacks that killed and maimed, amounting to war crimes, they said.
