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Safe Zone for Syria: Mitigating the Humanitarian Crisis

Esther MeininghausAndreas Heinemann-Grüder

出版	2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QEtBzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Abstract: The protection of civilians remains an urgent task in Syria. Mass atrocities may resume if the political impasse is not overcome. While the government's allies have gained significant ground with the fall of Aleppo, those who remain in opposition areas, and the governorate of Idlib in particular, face an immediate risk of mass-scale assault. In these areas, targeted aerial attacks on civilian neighbourhoods and infrastructure persist notwithstanding the present ceasefire. A no-fly zone exempting the country's IS-controlled east is the only effective means of preventing a military resolution of the conflict, which may result in mass atrocities. Given that all parties to the war have continuously violated the provisions of international humanitarian law, none of these actors should be entrusted with the task of preventing atrocities on the ground. While a conflict of interests is likely to erupt between Russia, Hezbollah and Iran as for their respective roles in Syria's political fut