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Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has condemned the Syrian regime's alleged recent chlorine attack in northern Syria on its webpage Tuesday.
In a statement titled "Syria: Evidence of a fresh war crime as chlorine gas attack kills entire family," Amnesty said that a family of six people, including three children younger than three years old was killed late Monday in a chlorine gas attack when regime forces have dropped four barrel bombs on Sermin and Qminas villages in Idlib province.
"These horrific attacks that resulted in civilians, including small children, suffering excruciating deaths, are yet more evidence that the Syrian government forces are committing war crimes with impunity. The situation in Syria must be referred to the International Criminal Court as a matter of urgency," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's director of Middle East and North Africa's program.
The statement follows a report by the organization released on Tuesday on findings into the death of 115 civilians, including 14 children, in regime aerial attacks on Raqqa – a stronghold of the militant group Daesh in Syria – which took place between Nov. 11 and 29, 2014.
Moreover, the organization made reference to a fact-finding mission of the international Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which found confirmed "compelling confirmation" of constant use of chemical weapons in 2014.
The Syrian opposition has repeatedly accused the Assad regime of using chemical and toxic weapons against civilians since the August 2013, when such an attack reportedly killed more than 1,400 civilians.
www.aa.com.tr/en - Ankara
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