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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rooshuns, Syrians committed war crimes
2016-12-02
Not if they win they didn't
[ARA News] Aleppo – The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September and October 2016, killing over 440 civilians, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Violations Documentation Center, a Syrian civil monitoring organization, documented that the bombing campaign killed more than 440 civilians, including nearly 90 children.

During the month-long bombing campaign, Syrian military forces surrounded opposition-held eastern part of Aleppo city.

Although Syrian and Russian authorities declared that civilians and fighters could leave through designated corridors, very few did.

Syrian and Russian authorities and armed opposition groups blamed each other for the civilian casualties.

“Whatever the reason, the Russian-Syrian coalition should have taken precautionary measures to avoid and minimize civilian casualties when attacking armed opposition groups,” Human Rights Watch said.

Airstrikes often appeared to be recklessly indiscriminate, deliberately targeted at least one medical facility, and included the use of indiscriminate weapons such as cluster munitions and incendiary weapons, the human rights group reported.

Satellite imagery that Human Rights Watch analyzed have shown more than 950 new distinct impact sites consistent with the detonation of large high explosive bombs across the area during the month.

“Using that amount of firepower in an urban area with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of civilians predictably killed hundreds of civilians,” said Ole Solvang, deputy emergencies director at Human Rights Watch.

“Those who ordered and carried out unlawful attacks should be tried for war crimes,” Solvang stressed.

HRW has also documented armed opposition groups’ attacks against government-controlled western Aleppo.

“Deliberate or reckless attacks against civilians and civilian objects, including hospitals, committed with criminal intent are war crimes,” HRW said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on September 28, that those using indiscriminate weapons in Aleppo “know they are committing war crimes.”
Posted by:badanov

#1  Dresden.

Somebody wins and somebody loses. There is no future in losing.

That is why they call to war.

There IS no nice or decent way to fight a War. War is killing people. You do it and you keep doing it until you run out of ammo and then you take ammo off the dead and use theirs.

The UN can suck a hotchy. Simon de Montfort. What you DON'T do ...... is Lose.
Posted by: Harcourt Elmoger6914   2016-12-02 05:25  

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