A three-year investigation has confirmed that Bashar Al Assad’s regime has used chlorine gas bombs against civilians in Syria

    Soldiers of the Ejército sirio de camino al frente in Tel Tamir
Soldiers of the Ejército sirio de camino al frente in Tel Tamir

La Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Arms (OPAQ) confirms these allegations that the government forces will use a prohibited weapon in an attack against the city of Saraqib, in the Syrian province of Idlib, el February 4, 2018, following the conclusions of Investigation and Identification Team (ITT).

“Approximately to the 21:22 4 February 2018, a military helicopter of the Syrian Arabian Air Force, controlled by the Fuerzas Nimr (Tigre, on year), and considered an elite division, attacking Saraqib’s eastbound at least one cylinder. The cylinder breaks and releases chlorine in a large zone, which affected two people”, Subrayó the organization, with seat in La Haya.

The OPAQ has been investigating a series of incidents involving chemical weapons during the civil war that took place in a civil war in 2011, and the ITT has concluded that “There are reasonable motives for creating” which is used prohibited in an attack against the civilian population of Saraqib.

The ITT investigation suspends an integral revision of “all information obtained”, which includes interviews with present witnesses at the time of the incidents, a sample analysis y restos collected at the incident sites, revision of the rheumatology reported by the victims and the medical staff, exam of the images, includes satellite, and one “Consult with experts”.

Además, if you have one topographic analysis of the zone in question and “Gas Dispersion Models for Corrupt Testing and Victim Relationships”, añadió la OPAQ. It is the second information published by the ITT since it was established in June 2018 by a majority decision of the member states to identify the authors of the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

Various residents while inspecting an enclosed cellar in a barrier on the east of Aleppo (Syria).  EFE / STR
Various residents while inspecting an enclosed shed in a barrier on the east of Aleppo (Syria). EFE / STR

In this context, the IIT also announced the “legal and practical challenges of its work, and the conclusions of the investigation” centered on the Saraqib incident, which confirmed that “It has probably been used by chemical weapons in Syria”.

Off April of last year, the IIT concluded in its inform substrate which, basically a “Reasonable motives”, can conclude that the fashions of Bashar al Asad usaron gas sarín o chloro en al minos tres ataks contra la ciudad siria de Hama en 2017.

Since 2011 the serious conflict began, the OPAQ has been able to confirm the denial, with its investigations, of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, a high level of bargaining over the past decade. But it was not until 2018 that the creation of the IIT was announced in order to identify those responsible for the use of these prohibited arms in the Netherlands.

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