“The head of the independent UN commission on Syrian war crimes said Friday that commanders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant extremist group are ‘good candidates’ to be put on a confidential list of alleged perpetrators. Brazilian diplomat and scholar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said the Al Qaida breakaway group, which now controls a swath of north and eastern Syria, has carried out public executions, crucifixions and other ‘gross human rights violations.’”
Source: War crimes commission takes aim at Isil | GulfNews.com
