WORLD_ SYRIA_ Action urged against barrel bombs’ use

The Gulf Today

Action urged against barrel bombs’ use

June 27, 2015

UNITED NATIONS: More than 80 international human rights and aid groups are urging the UN Security Council (UNSC) to take real, immediate action against the continuing use of barrel bombs in Syria’s grinding civil war.

Thursday’s letter comes a week after more than 70 countries expressed “outrage” and demanded that the council prevent Syria’s air force from using the weapons, which are prohibited by international humanitarian law because of their indiscriminate nature.

The council meets informally Friday to explore how the international community should respond as Syria’s fighting is deep into a fifth year with well over 200,000 killed.

The council more than a year ago called for an end to the use of barrel bombs, but it has not followed up. The new letter calls the council’s periodic expressions of concern since then “woefully inadequate.”

But doing more is a challenge, as permanent council member Russia has used its veto power multiple times to block action against its ally Syria since the bloody conflict began with protests against President Bashar Al Assad.

Russia was not among the dozens of countries that signed last week’s letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanding that the council take action and claiming that “May 2015 was reportedly the deadliest month of the Syrian crisis so far.” More than 11,000 barrel bombs have been dropped in Syria since October, says the announcement for Friday’s council meeting, hosted by France and Spain, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

In the past month, both the UN special envoy for Syria and an independent UN commission of inquiry on Syria have condemned the Syrian government’s use of barrel bombs.

Associated Press

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