UN rights chief calls for accountability over deadly clashes in Syria's Sweida
'This bloodshed and the violence must stop, and the protection of all people must be the utmost priority,' Volker Turk said in a statement, demanding 'independent, prompt and transparent investigations into all violations... Those responsible must be held to account'.
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