Assad abuses Reviving the previous discussion where it was agreed that this was biased and needed removing Inspections and probes in Syria by the UN and Amnesty International determined in 2012 2013 and 2014 that the vast majority of abuses as well as the largest in scale were being committed by the Syrian government This is very strong anti Assad language to have in the beginning paragraphs of the article I think the previous sentence is plenty to sum up the UN s position A United Nations panel investigating human rights abuses in Syria has asked the United Nations Security Council and influential states to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court