双语新闻：瑞士牵头将叙利亚问题提交国际刑事法院 Switzerland Leads Effort to Refer Syria to ICC

14 January, 2013

以瑞士为首的50多个国家星期一将要求联合国安理会把叙利亚问题提及国际刑事法院，这一举措将为战争罪指控铺平道路。

美联社得到了这一信件的副本。该信件援引了联合国专家组记录在案的自2011年3月叙利亚起义爆发以来发生的拷打、性暴力以及即时处决等事件。

在叙利亚继续发生暴力事件之际，人道主义组织呼吁国际社会加紧救助那些在危机下逃离家园的叙利亚难民。

国际救援委员会星期一发表的一份新报告警告说，叙利亚面临着“令人发指的人道灾难”。报告列举了难民们面临的医疗服务短缺以及“可怕程度”的性暴力。很多叙利亚家庭说，这种状况迫使他们逃离叙利亚。

More than 50 countries, led by Switzerland, will ask the U.N. Security Council Monday to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court, a move that would clear the way for war crimes prosecutions.

A letter obtained by the Associated Press cites the findings of a U.N. expert panel documenting torture, sexual violence and summary executions that have occurred in Syria since the start of the uprising in March 2011.

As the violence continues, humanitarian groups are calling on the international community to increase aid for refugees driven from their homes by the crisis.

The International Rescue Committee issued a new report Monday warning that the region faces a "staggering humanitarian disaster." It outlines the challenges refugees face in accessing health care, as well as what it calls "horrific levels" of sexual violence that many families cited as their reason for fleeing Syria.