UN orders urgent investigation into Syria’s besieged rebel enclave
Geneva — The UN Human Rights Council on Monday ordered an urgent investigation into the situation in Syria’s besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta and demanded immediate humanitarian access to the area. The council voted in favour of a resolution calling on rights investigators to "urgently conduct a comprehensive and independent inquiry into recent events in Eastern Ghouta." With 29 votes in favour, 14 abstentions and four opposed, the UN’s top rights body also demanded immediate humanitarian access to the area where 400,000 residents have lived under siege from the regime since 2013 and face severe food and medicine shortages. The UN said on Sunday that it planned to deliver desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the enclave on Monday with a convoy of "46 truckloads of health and nutrition supplies, along with food for 27,500 people in need". But fresh violence could jeopardise the deliveries after fresh air raids by the Syrian regime killed at least 14 civilians overnig...
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