A dozen children dead, injured hundreds of people: In the Syrian civil war chemical weapons are apparently again been used – which side is unclear. The incident could ask U.S. President Barack Obama remains a serious problem.
The Syrian regime and the opposition are in this case exceptionally agree: both say that had been set up on April 11 in the village of Kafr Sita in the province of Hama in northern Syria chlorine gas. Here, about a dozen children should have died and have been injured hundred people.
But who has the gas used? Assad’s government and the opposition blame each other.
The U.S. has announced that it will investigate the new allegations of poison gas in Syria. “We are trying to investigate the matter,” the American UN ambassador Samantha
Power said on Sunday the U.S. television network ABC. “I think we have shown in the past that we do everything in our power lies, to find out what happened. And then we will think about possible answers.”
The new allegations could present a dilemma U.S. President Barack Obama. Because the gas attack Kafr Sita is the first use of chemical weapons since the attack of Damascus on 21 August 2013. Thereafter Obama Bashar al-Assad had threatened missile attacks. The pressure from Washington was then forced to respond to a levy and destruction of its chemical weapons arsenal Assad.
Syria Chemical Weapon Attack:Damascus has issued 65 percent of the declared weapons
Since then, Damascus had indeed used no more poison gas, but escalated its use of conventional weapons. Dozens of people die every day in Syria by conventional weapons, especially during air raids. But this outrage is internationally low. Should Assad but now, despite the warnings from Washington once again used poison gas, this is Obama’s Syria-course would be questioned.
So far, Damascus has issued 65 percent of the declared weapons. Chlorine gas, however, is not covered by the agreement for the destruction of poisonous gas stocks, as it not only as a chemical weapon is used, but also in industry or about the disinfection of drinking water.
Under the Chemical Weapons experts internationally is, however, agree on the assessment of chlorine gas: who inhales it, suffocated. It lends itself very well as a weapon.
Syria Chemical Weapon Attack:There are various indications against Damascus
Damascus claims that Islamist rebels from the Nusra front had used in the village of chlorine. As the regime comes to these findings, however, it does not reveal. Since 2012, Kafr Sita is in the hands of the opposition.
The Syrian opposition , however, claimed that the Syrian regime had let drop the gas in barrels of combat helicopters on the village. You have dozens of videos and photos posted on the Internet that will prove this. The blogger Eliot Higgins, who is intensely concerned with the review of YouTube videos from Syria , has collected some pictures on his blog .
The Syrian regime could have quite an interest in the recapture since 2012 held by the opposition Kafr Sita . From there, the rebels have launched several successful attacks on checkpoints and bases of the Syrian regime in recent weeks , reports the U.S. newspaper ” Wall Street Journal”.
Kafr Sita is also close to the major north -south highway connecting Aleppo with Damascus. From there you can explore the overland connection Aleppo disturb controlled by the regime areas. The Syrian regime has attempted in recent months to retake Aleppo. In the city romp fierce battles last weekend alone Dozens of people are killed again.
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