By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. rights investigators have established that Syrian government forces were almost certainly responsible for two massacres last May in which up to 450 civilians were killed, a report published on Wednesday said. The report documented eight mass killings in all, attributing all but one to government forces, but said both government and rebel fighters had committed war crimes including murder, hostage-taking and shelling of civilians. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-war-crimes-deepen-battle-territory-u-n-080613638.html

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