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DAMASCUS, Aug 3 (KUNA) -- The special UN fact-finding committee into
Israeli reported inhuman practices against the people of the occupied Golan
Heights on Friday arrived to the Qoneitra district to check on such alleged
reports.
The head of the committee, Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the UN Parsad Wassam
told reporters that the special committee was launched in 1968 and has been
visiting the areas once a year to check on reports of alleged "serious
violations" to human rights by Israeli occupation troops against the Arabs.
Wassam expressed gratitude to Syria's cooperation with the special
committee and stressed that the facts compiled so far supported the claims of
inhuman treatment.
He added that the special committee was prevented, by Israeli troops, from
doing its job on several occasions.
He indicated that the special committee had received from Qoneitra Governor
Nawaf Al-Sheikh Fares a "full report" on those practices and met on Thursday
with six eyewitnesses who supported the claims.
The special committee also included, among its members, the ambassador of
Malaysia to the UN Memidun Ali and the ambassador of the Senegal to the UN
Musa Bukarli as well as others, who work in the human rights field. (end)
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