The world must stand against Russia and Syria’s use of chemical weapons
Syria killed about 100 people with sarin gas in 2017 while Russia used a nerve agent to kill on British soil a month ago — these weapons have no place in the world today
A year ago today, in the early hours of the morning, Syrian aircraft dropped bombs on the town of Khan Sheikhoun. The sarin released by this bombing killed approximately 100 people, including several children. We saw media footage of men, women and children convulsing in agony, some foaming at the mouth, as their bodies were poisoned by nerve gas. As we know, the Khan Sheikhoun attack was not the first time the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its own people. In 2013, after hundreds were killed with sarin in an attack on Eastern Ghouta, Russia promised the world that Syria would abandon all of its chemical weapons. But this promise has not been kept. We can say with certainty, based on the findings of the UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Joint Investigative Mechanism, that the regime used chlorine in Idlib, at Talmenes in April 2014, as well as in Sarmin and Qmenas in March 2015. And then the massacre a year ago to the day in Khan Sheikhoun....
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