International human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of crimes against humanity. This was announced in Amnesty on Monday, November 13, in London, notes DW.

To such crimes, human rights activists attributed the siege of Assad's troops to settlements and the forced resettlement of people living there. The Syrian government army made bombardments of the besieged territories and blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid, as a result of which civilians suffered an acute shortage of food and medicine, stressed in AI. "The Syrian government deliberately uses famine as a collective punishment for the population," said the representative of the German branch of AI Rene Wildangel (Rene Wildangel).

Amnesty also criticized the so-called "reconciliatory agreement" between the Assad regime and the Syrian opposition, which spread, among other things, to the eastern part of Aleppo.

The treaty provided for the option of choosing residents of besieged areas to remain in the war zone or leave them.

As a result, thousands of families evacuated from the city were in disastrous conditions in meagerly equipped camps, human rights defenders complain. In this regard, the AI ??believes that this agreement can be equated to actually forced resettlement of people. Amnesty asked the UN to conduct a thorough investigation of the circumstances described and to prosecute violators.