The interim government calls for referring evidence of the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons to the International Criminal Court
In a statement, the Syrian Interim Government welcomed the report issued by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, in which it held the Assad regime responsible for the chemical attack in Saraqib 2018, considering it a step towards achieving justice.
The Interim Government affirmed that the findings of the report, which it concluded, pave the way for greater steps in this context, and because it enhances hope in the hearts of Syrians and their belief in the necessity and imperative to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable, no matter how long it takes.
The government called on international and human rights organizations and the international community to practice all legal methods for referring these files and reports to the International Criminal Court and not to leave these evidence as mere reports on paper.
And she stressed the need to expedite the accountability of the Assad regime and its militias and block the way for it to continue its attempts to market and rehabilitate it after all the crimes it committed against the Syrians and all humanity through its constant defiance of the international community and what international laws stipulated.
On February 4, 2018, a helicopter belonging to the Assad regime targeted two barrels containing toxic chlorine gas the eastern neighborhood of Saraqib city in Idlib countryside, leaving 11 injured civilians, including three civil defense volunteers.
