“Many days were lost without any aid to survivors of the earthquake,” commission member Paulo Pinheiro said. “Syrians, for good reasons, felt abandoned and neglected.” The U.N. inquiry commission said quake aid was slow to reach Syria:
Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, centre, Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, sitting between commission members Hanny Megally of Egypt, left, and Lynn Welchman of Britian, right, talks to the media during a press conference before presenting the last report by the commission on the human rights situation in Syria at the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 13, 2023.
two more border crossings into the rebel-held region bordering Turkey as many people were still under the rubble. “They failed to deliver international emergency support including rescue teams and equipment in the vital first week after the earthquake,” Pinheiro said, adding that “Syrians, for good reasons, felt abandoned and neglected by those who supposed to protect them in their most desperate time.”
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. legal position is that it works under the mandate of the U.N. Security Council, which at the time of the quake only mandated aid deliveries to Syria’s northwest through the Bab Al-Hawa crossing. “The suffering inflicted on them may amount to the war crime of committing outrages on personal dignity. We call again for repatriations to speed up,” the commission's report said.
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