Belfast Telegraph
Saturday, 2 June 2012
Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, left, and Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani discuss Syria at the Arab League (AP)
The UN's top human rights official has said that there should be no amnesty for serious crimes committed in Syria, even if the threat of prosecution might motivate members of the regime to cling to power at all costs. Asked if Syrian President Bashar Assad should be allowed to leave power in exchange for safe haven, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said international leaders seeking peace may be drawn to "politically expedient solutions which may involve amnesty or undertakings not to prosecute."
But she said that would be wrong under international law.
"You cannot have amnesty for very serious crimes," she told The Associated Press during an interview in Brussels. "So my message is very clear - there has to be accountability."
Lawyers for former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was sentenced on Wednesday by the Special Court for Sierra Leone to 50 years in prison, had argued that giving him a long sentence would send the wrong message to Assad.
Courtenay Griffiths, an attorney for Taylor, criticised the court for refusing while setting Taylor's sentence to take into account his decision to step down from power after his indictment in 2003.
"What lesson does that send to President Assad?" Mr Griffiths asked. "Maybe the lesson is: If you are a sitting leader and the international community wants to get rid of you, either you get murdered like Col. Gaddafi, or you hang on until the bitter end." Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed by a mob in October.
In Doha, Qatar, international envoy Kofi Annan held talks with Arab League officials and said the "spectre of an all-out war with a worrying sectarian dimension grows by the day."
Qatar's prime minister Sheik Hamid bin Jassim Al Thani urged the UN to set a deadline for Annan's peace efforts and warn Assad that failure could mean invoking Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which allows for possible military action. Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby suggested an option could be converting the Arab-led observer mission in Syria into a peacekeeping force.
Activists say as many as 13,000 people have died in Assad's crackdown against a popular uprising that began in March 2011. One year after the revolt started, the UN put the toll at 9,000, but many more have died since.
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