{"id":37323,"date":"2019-03-25T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37323"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:23:57","slug":"syria-force-calls-for-international-court-to-try-daesh-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37323","title":{"rendered":"Syria force calls for international court to try Daesh extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1472266\/middle-east\" readability=\"86\">\n<p>\nAIN ISSA, Syria: US-backed forces in Syria Monday called for the establishment of an international court in the country to try suspected Daesh group extremists.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe announcement came two days after the militant group\u2019s \u201ccaliphate\u201d was declared defeated.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe call on the international community to establish a special international tribunal in northeast Syria to prosecute terrorists,\u201d the Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this way, \u201ctrials can be conducted fairly and in accordance with international law and human rights covenants and charters,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\nSyria\u2019s Kurds have previously warned that despite the demise of the Daesh proto-state, the thousands of foreign extremists they have detained are a time-bomb the world urgently needs to defuse.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the SDF, more than 5,000 militants \u2014 Syrian and foreign \u2014 have been captured since January.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria has warned it does not have capacity to detain so many people.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the home countries of suspected Daesh members are reluctant to take them back, due to potential security risks and the likely public backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Kurdish administration in northeast Syria has appealed to the international community to shoulder its responsibilities toward members of the terrorist organization detained by Kurdish security forces,\u201d read Monday\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut unfortunately there was no response,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt called on the international community, particularly countries that have nationals detained, to support the establishment of an international tribunal, calling for legal and logistical cooperation and coordination.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the past, two international tribunals were created by the international community: the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which tried genocide perpetrators in the African country, and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which tried those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in wars that tore apart the Balkans in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIN ISSA, Syria: US-backed forces in Syria Monday called for the establishment of an international court in the country to try suspected Daesh group extremists. The announcement came two days after the militant group\u2019s \u201ccaliphate\u201d was declared defeated. \u201cWe call on the international community to establish a special international tribunal in northeast Syria to prosecute&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}