“has observed a Total contempt for the life of the people”: Human Rights Watch for two years, the Situation on the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The situation was devastating.
The Human rights organization Human Rights Watch has accused the Egyptian security forces of serious breaches in its Anti-Terror fight on the Sinai Peninsula. Instead of supporting the residents of Sinai in their fight against the Militants would put the security forces, “a total contempt for the lives of the residents and their everyday life in an endless nightmare transformed,” said the Deputy middle East Director of Human Rights Watch, Michael Page.
torture and executions
Two years of the organization according to their own statements, among other things, torture, unlawful arrests and detention, disappearances and extrajudicial executions in the North of the Sinai had documented. For the research, interviewed by Human Rights Watch according to its own information 54 residents of the Northern Sinai. Were interviewed, therefore, activists, journalists, and other witnesses, including members of the military. In addition, the organization’s official statements, Social Media Posts, media, evaluated reports, and dozens of satellite photos.
The North of the Sinai Peninsula is repeatedly rocked by violence between the army and the armed groups. Among other things, an offshoot of the terrorist militia “Islamic state is” not active. Regularly it comes to bombings, firefights and raids by the police and the military.
civilians for insurgents held
It was now a national armed conflict, estimated by Human Rights Watch the situation. Between 2014 and June 2018, more than 3,000 suspected Islamists, and more than 1200 security forces had been killed Fighting. The studies had shown, that hundreds of injured or killed civilians were carried out by the Egyptian authorities mistakenly considered insurgents. In addition, there have been more than 12,000 arrests, the human rights organization.
The Egyptian authorities rejected the allegations sharp. There were no human rights violations in the Sinai, said the Governor of North Sinai, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shusha.
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