German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (not pictured) in Ankara, Turkey February 8, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
GENEVA (Reuters) - Detainees held by the Syrian government are being killed on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said on Monday.
The U.N. commission of inquiry called on the Security Council to impose "targeted sanctions" on high-ranking Syrian civilian and military officials responsible for or complicit in deaths, torture and disappearances in custody, but stopped short of naming the suspects.
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