Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Amnesty International Report on 'Civilian Deaths' Based on Fakes, Cliches

The Russian Defense Ministry refuted Amnesty International's report about alleged deaths of civilians in Syria in the course of the Russian counterterrorism campaign.

The Amnesty International report on civilian deaths caused by Russian airstrikes in Syria consists of "fakes and cliches", the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.

"We have studied the report — again, there was nothing precise and new published there. The same cliches and fakes that we have often disproved earlier. The report if full of such expressions as 'presumably Russian airstrikes', 'possible international law violations' and so on. Sheer assumptions without any proof."

Earlier in the day, Amnesty International released a report suggesting Russia's use of internationally prohibited cluster munitions in populated residential areas in Syria.

Russian aircraft in Syria do not use cluster munitions and such weapons are not stored at the Hmeymim airbase, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.

"As for cluster munitions allegations. The Russian aviation are not using them."

The ministry cast doubts on the authenticity of the airphotos used by the human rights watchdog and called on Amnesty International to name the sources of the information it had used in the report.

The spokesman underscored that in fact Amnesty accused Russia of bombing non-existent facilities.

He said that Amnesty International ignores war crimes committed by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria and has not provided detailed reports on the activities of the Gulf coalition in Yemen and the use of cluster munitions by Kiev troops in Donbass.

"We have a question for Amnesty International: why did this organization keep silent and turn a blind eye to material, undeniable, real evidence of the use of cluster munitions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against cities in eastern Ukraine?"

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 [sputniknews.com]
23/12/15
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