Bosnian activist urges global community to bring justice for victims of Assad regime

By Bedrudin Brljavac and Talha Ozturk

SARAJEVO, Bosnia Herzegovina (AA) - Bosnian activist Amor Masovic has urged prosecution and punishment for crimes committed in Syria during the decades-long Assad regime.

"The search for missing persons should lead to justice and punishment of all those who planned such crimes, organized, logistically supported, ordered and carried out, as well as those who covered up these crimes," Masovic told Anadolu in an interview.

Masovic, former director of the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the 1990s Balkan Wars, said that since the end of the Baath regime earlier this month, several mass graves have been discovered in Syria.

"My appeal is to the international community … to pursue to the ends of the earth those who are responsible for these crimes that have occurred in Syria over the past 50 years," said Masovic.

Bashar Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia after anti-regime forces captured Damascus on Dec. 8, ending the Baath Party’s 61-year grip on power.