This has to be a very painful way to die.
Syrian Government Used Chlorine Gas on Civilians: OPCW Report
World | Reuters | Updated: January 07, 2015 05:56 IST
Signs are seen on one of the containers carrying precursors to sarin gas.(Reuters)
UNITED NATIONS: The latest report on Syria by the global chemical weapons watchdog offers further evidence that the Syrian government repeatedly attacked its own citizens with poison gas, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday.
The 117-page report by a fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) includes eyewitness accounts of helicopters dropping barrel bombs with toxic chemicals. The findings are consistent with two previous reports by the mission but offer much more detail.
After a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on progress in destroying Syria's chemical weapons program, Power said the new report added credence to allegations that the Syrian government used chlorine gas as a weapon in its four-year-old civil war after pledging to give up its toxic arsenal. Power tweeted,
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Syrian Government Used Chlorine Gas on Civilians: OPCW Report
World | Reuters | Updated: January 07, 2015 05:56 IST
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Signs are seen on one of the containers carrying precursors to sarin gas.(Reuters)
UNITED NATIONS: The latest report on Syria by the global chemical weapons watchdog offers further evidence that the Syrian government repeatedly attacked its own citizens with poison gas, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday.
The 117-page report by a fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) includes eyewitness accounts of helicopters dropping barrel bombs with toxic chemicals. The findings are consistent with two previous reports by the mission but offer much more detail.
After a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on progress in destroying Syria's chemical weapons program, Power said the new report added credence to allegations that the Syrian government used chlorine gas as a weapon in its four-year-old civil war after pledging to give up its toxic arsenal. Power tweeted,
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