UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria says "now is the moment" for the government to provide information on thousands of detained and missing people — not after the seven-year conflict ends.
Paulo Pinheiro told reporters after briefing a closed informal Security Council meeting Wednesday that the commission "will continue to fight for accountability but we think that there are ... urgent expectations by the families" for information about detained or missing loved ones.
He said the government has released information on the deaths of numerous detained and missing people but little else.
Pinheiro said families of those who died "have a right to know what happened, where the bodies are" and families who haven't heard anything must be told if their relatives are alive or dead.
