Friday, April 4, 2014

Syrian opposition accuses Assad of new "chemical attack" again, and even provides "video proof"

Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, showing footage of an apparently unconscious man lying on a bed and being treated by medics. The alleged attack on the neighbourhood of Jobar in the capital Damascus comes a week after the Syrian government sent a letter to the United Nations claiming it had evidence that rebel groups were planning a toxic gas attack in the same area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COU_mm4Ogu4
There is no official confirmation of footage authenticity.

Activists from the opposition "Jobar Revo" group posted the video on YouTube of a man being treated with oxygen and being injected by medics. A voice off-screen said Thursday's date and that there was "a poison attack in Jobar."

Another opposition group, the Syrian Revolutionary Coordinators Union, said that all those affected by the gas were "in a good condition". There has been on-off fighting between rebels and government forces in Jobar this year.

  • In a letter dated March 25 and circulated by the United Nations this week, Syria's UN envoy, Bashar Ja'afari, said his government had intercepted communications between "terrorists" that showed a man named Abu Nadir was secretly distributing gas masks in the rebel-held Jobar area.

  • Ja'afari said in the letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council that this information "confirms that armed terrorist groups are preparing to use toxic gas in Jobar quarter and other areas, in order to accuse the Syrian government of having committed such an act of terrorism."

A UN inquiry found in December that sarin gas had likely been used in Jobar in August and in several other locations, including in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Ghouta, where hundreds of people were killed.

The Syrian government and the opposition have each accused the other of using chemical weapons, and both have denied it.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_04/Syrian-opposition-accuses-Assad-of-new-chemical-attack-again-and-even-provides-video-proof-4696/

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