Monday, May 4, 2015

NGO, opposition urge probe of Syria deaths in US-led raid

Activists and Syria's opposition have called for an investigation into a US-led coalition strike last week that allegedly killed 64 civilians, nearly half of them children, in northern Syria.

The U.S. military Sunday acknowledged coalition strikes in the Birmahle area but said it was unaware of any civilian deaths.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor that tracks deaths in the war, said the strikes in the village in Aleppo province overnight Friday needed to be investigated.

"We call for a serious investigation into what happened with the strikes on Birmahle, because this is a massacre," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Syria's opposition National Coalition, which is backed by Washington, said it could not be certain who was behind the raids on Birmahle.

But it said available information "lends credence to reports that it was a U.S.-led coalition airstrike".

"It is absolutely vital, therefore, that such reports are taken seriously and a full investigation into the incident is carried out immediately," Coalition spokesman Salem al-Meslet said in a statement.

The Observatory reported Saturday that the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS had killed dozens of civilians in strikes on Birmahle between April 30 and May 1.

On Monday, Abdel Rahman said the toll had risen to 64 civilians, including 31 children, with no ISIS fighters among the dead...

AFP
dailystar.com.lb
4/5/15
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