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It also urged UN main bodies to demand "Syrian authorities meet their responsibility to protect their population."
Pointing fingers the wrong way, killer gang violence was largely ignored as it was in HRC's February Commission of Inquiry . Using spurious testimony from externally based opposition elements, it accused Assad of "manifestly fail(ing) in (his) duty to protect the people." It also claimed his government "committed gross human rights violations."
While also admitting anti-Assad abuses, it said they're "non comparable in scale and organization to those carried out by the State."
Unable to assess the credibility of its allegations, HRC pointed fingers mostly one way, and did again on March 23.
It strayed far from its September 2010 report on Israel's May 2010 Mavi Marmara massacre. Based on credible eye witness testimonies, forensic evidence, legitimate video footage, and other photographic material, it:
"concluded that a series of violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, were committed by the Israeli forces during the interception of the flotilla and during the detention of passengers in Israel prior to deportation.""The preponderance of evidence from impeccable sources is far too overwhelming to come to a contrary opinion," it said.
Saying Israel's "obligated" to respect international law, it called its attack "unnecessary, disproportionate, excessive, inappropriate and resulted in the wholly avoidable killing and maiming of a large number of civilian passengers."
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