WORLD_ SYRIA_ ‘Systematic’ chemical weapons used in Syria: OPCW

‘Systematic’ chemical weapons used in Syria: OPCW

June 19, 2014
The Gulf Today


GENEVA: Chemical weapons such as chlorine have likely been used in a “systematic manner” in Syria, according to a report by a team from the world’s watchdog investigating alleged attacks there.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission said evidence “lends credence to the view that toxic chemicals, most likely pulmonary irritating agents such as chlorine, have been used in a systematic manner in a number of attacks,” according to a copy of the report obtained by AFP.

The OPCW team probing the allegations was attacked with a roadside bomb and gunfire on May 27, preventing them accessing the site of an alleged attack in the village of Kafr Zeyta.

“The attack on the team and the resulting denial of access prevents it from presenting definitive conclusions,” the report added.

Nevertheless, the allegations “cannot be dismissed as unconnected, random, or of a nature attributable to purely political motives,” the report said.

Despite not being able to visit the attack, OPCW officials spoke to doctors in Kafr Zeyta “and obtained their verbal medical reports relating to the treatment of individuals allegedly affected by exposure to chlorine.” The team also saw video footage of the alleged attack and of alleged munitions used in the attack, some of which remained intact.

The report noted that chlorine is a widely available chemical, that is non-persistent and so conclusively proving its use is “a challenging task.”

Meanahile Syrian army helicopters bombed a refugee camp along the Jordanian border on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, mostly children and women, residents and opposition activists said.

They said the army dropped several barrel bombs - highly destructive improvised explosives, use of which has been condemned by Western powers as a war crime - on the camp in the village of Shajra, 2 km (1 mile) from the Jordanian border.

“Women were wailing hysterically as they saw their dead children lying on the floor,” said Abu Mohammad Al Hourani, a farmer in the village who said he had helped to remove bodies after the dawn raid.

Hundreds of families fleeing intensified fighting between rebels and the army in southern Syria in recent months had taken shelter in the town near the border, which Jordan closed last year after taking in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.



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