DUBAI, December 10. /TASS/. Syrian armed opposition leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, has pledged that officers of the country’s army and security services "involved in torturing" the Syrian people will be brought to justice.
"We will not hesitate to prosecute criminals, murderers, security and army officers who were involved in torturing Syrians. We will also prosecute war criminals and demand they be extradited from the countries harboring them so that they can be duly punished," he told Syria’s television.
According to al-Sharaa, the new authorities will soon publish a list of high-ranking officials who are suspected of committing crimes against humanity during Bashar Assad’s presidency.
Syria’s armed opposition said earlier that it guaranteed safety to those Syrians who were involuntarily drafted to the army. The military operations command, the opposition’s steering body, declared a general amnesty for those called up for military service in the government army.
Syria’s armed opposition units launched a large-scale offensive on government troops in the Aleppo and Idlib governorates in late November and on December 8, they entered Damascus while government troops withdrew from the city. The head of the Syrian government, Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, expressed his readiness for a peaceful transfer of power in the country.