Assad’s Syria ‘still using chem weapons against own people’
SYRIA has carried out 211 chemical attacks on its own people – killing more than 1,350 victims, including 187 children and 244 women, a report says.
As many as 178 deadly chemicals were unleashed since a notorious 2013 assault, after which Syria, led by President Bashar al-Assad, and its ally Russia promised such weapons would not be used again.
The statistics were revealed by a Syrian Network for Human Rights investigation. A report yesterday accused Russia of ignoring Syria’s chemical weapons use and preventing probes. And it said Syria has crossed chemical weapons red lines laid down by America and France, and flouted repeated UN Security Council rulings. It said: “Russia has failed to deter the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons.” It is thought 500,000 have died in the war since 2011.