Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) chief Abu Mohammed al-Julani on Tuesday said the new regime will release the list of Bashar al-Assad officials who are responsible for “torturing Syrian people”.
Al-Julani said the anyone who gives information about senior army and security officers involved in war crimes will be rewarded, adding that they would not hesitate to hold the criminals and murderers accountable. “We will pursue war criminals and ask for their hand over from the countries to which they fled,” the HTS chief said in a statement posted by the Military Operations Command.
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However, al-Julani said the new government is committed to granting amnesty to those whose “hands are not stained with the blood of the Syrian people” and the conscripted soliders who were in compulsory service under ousted president Assad's regime. But the amnesty is not applicable to officers.
According Syria's SANA news agency, the amnesty aims to reintegrate military personnel who were captures or deserted when the the Assad regime fell.
The HTS, which was restricted to the Idlib province until November 27, swiftly moved to Aleppo, followed by capture of Hama, Homs and Damascus on December 8.
The latest statement by al-Julani comes he discussed the “transfer of power” with outgoing Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali. The meeting was also attended by Mohammed al-Bashir, the chief of “Salvation Government” in northwest Syria. He is likely to be the acting prime minister.
Meanwhile, Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is opening the Yayladagi border gate to allow Syrian refugees to return to their homeland.
