two-year international The investigation blamed the Syrian for a deadly chemical weapons attack that killed 43 people in Always in April 2018.
probe by global The Chemical Weapons Monitoring Organization has established that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria air force Two cylinders fell containing Chlorine gas on the city.
A report published Friday a team from the organization for the ban of CW offered latest confirmation that order of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons during his country’s brutal civil war.
“the use of chemical weapons in Always – and anywhere – rejected and breached of international Fernando Arias, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said.
the organization He said that “reasonable grounds to believe” is standard of Consistently supported guide international fact- Creation of bodies and committees of Question.
Syria which joined Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2013 under pressure from international community After blaming him for else deadly chemical weapon attackdoes not recognize the investigation team’s authority and repeatedly denied using chemical weapons.
despite of latest Results, bring perpetrators in Syria l justice remains for along way way off. Russia is an ally of Syria. in the pastimpeded efforts by the UN Security Council to order an investigation by the International Criminal Court in Syrian Arab Republic.
“the world He now knows the facts – he does up to me international community To take action in the OPCW and beyond,” Arias, A veteran said a Spanish diplomat.
yellow cylinders
The report said there were “reasonable grounds to believe” that it was during government military offensive To always restore, at least one Syrian air force Mi8 / 17 helicopter shot down two aircraft yellow cylinders on the city.
One of Cylinders hit the surface of three-story residential building and rupture, “release poisonous gases, chlorine, in Very high concentrations, which quickly disperse within building killing 43 individuals identified and affecting dozens more,” according to the report.
a second The cylinder burst through the roof of else building in flat below And only partially torn,” it mildly affects those who first arrived at the scene of the accident added.
The Syrian authorities refused to investigate team access to sites of Chlorine attacks. Her voting rights have been suspended at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2021 as a penalty for repeated use of Poisonous gases first This penalty was imposed on Member State.
Painstaking investigation by organization’s teamI was set up To identify the perpetrators of Chemical weapons attacks in Syrian Arab Republic, built on Previous findings by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons fact-Finding mission This chlorine was used as a weapon in Always.
detectives also dozens of interviews of Witnesses and studied blood and urine of survivors, as well as specimens of soil and building materials, according to the monitoring agency.
detectives also Alternative theories have been carefully evaluated and rejected for What happened, including Syria’s claim that attack It was staged and those corpses of people killed elsewhere in Syria was taken to Duma for consideration like victims of Gas attack.
the report found That the two cylinders that hold the chlorine have been conscientiously adjusted and filled air The base and the helicopter or helicopters that shot it down were under control of Syrian military elite tiger force.
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons team “It is considered range of possible scenarios and test their validity against The evidence they collected and analyzed to reach their conclusion that the Syrian Arab Air Force was the culprit of This is amazing attack,” the organization He said in Permit.
The ongoing conflict that started in Syrian Arab Republic more More than a decade ago, hundreds were killed of thousands and homeless half pre-war country population of 23 million.
