The Syrian war has become “the worst man-made disaster the world has seen since World War II,” the UN Human Rights Commissioner told the human rights council with 400,000 people dead and 10.3 million driven from their homes.
The entire conflict is “this immense tidal wave of bloodshed and atrocity,” he said, adding that tens of thousands of people remain detained in the Syrian regime’s prisons, where they are subject to torture, unfair trials and execution.
“Today, in a sense, the entire country has become a torture-chamber: a place of savage horror and absolute injustice,” he said.
A whole generation of Syrian children have known nothing but war, Save the Children warned earlier this week, as medical and educational infrastructure in the country continues to crumble.
“Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. And the four angels who had been kept ready … were released to kill a third of mankind” ~ Revelation 9:14-15.