Deadly abuses intensify in Syria as war worsens: U.N.

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Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria Paulo Pinheiro delivers his report next to UN human rights chief Pillay during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in GenevaBy Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The Syrian government has stepped up indiscriminate, heavy bombardments of cities while rebels are executing prisoners condemned in their own makeshift courts without due process, U.N. investigators said on Monday. The independent investigators said they were looking into 20 massacres committed by one or the other side and hundreds of "unlawful killings", cases of torture and arbitrary arrests since September in the two-year-old conflict. …

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