On the 11th anniversary of the chemical massacre in Ghouta.. U.S. and UK call for holding Assad regime accountable
German Special Envoy for Syria, Stefan Schneck, said on August 21, that Assad regime is not cooperating regarding the issue of revealing and declaring all its chemical weapons and has not destroyed its weapons facilities.
Schneck called on Assad regime via a post on “X” platform to fully cooperate with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as a step to provide accountability and conditions for reconciliation.
Schneck pointed out that Assad regime forces used on 21 August 2013, the sarin gas in Ghouta of Damascus, killing hundreds of people and forced them to join the OPCW, after the international reactions.
The United States recalled the victims of chemical attack on Ghouta of Damascus, on 21 August 2013. The US Embassy in Syria said in a post on “X” platform that “the horrific chemical attack on Ghouta in 2013 killed more than 1400 people, many of them are children.”
The US Embassy expressed its solidarity with the Syrians in their pursuit of achieving justice, accountability, and permanent peace.
UK Special Representative for Syria, Ann Snow, confirmed in a post on “X” platform that “her country will continue to work with partners, survivors and their families and with OPCW and others to gather evidence and hold Assad regime accountable.
Snow added that UK will not forget the chemical attack carried out by Assad regime on Ghouta of Damacus.
It is noteworthy that on August 21, 2013, the Eastern and Western Ghoutas of Damascus witnessed the largest chemical attack carried out by the Assad regime, leaving behind a horrific massacre that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, most of them children and women, who died due to suffocation with toxic gases.
According to a report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, 1,144 people were killed on that day by suffocation. They were divided into 1,119 civilians, including 99 children and 194 women, in addition to 25 of armed opposition fighters, and 5,935 people suffered from respiratory symptoms and suffocation.
