Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UK’s Syria campaign manager, said: “For years Moscow has shielded the Assad government and blocked efforts to try to reduce the suffering of the Syrian people, now Russia’s air forces are themselves killing Syrian civilians by the hundred”. The claim from the Amnesty report is that the slain are nearly exclusively civilian, with only a “dozen or so” combatants, which would be hard to reconcile with rebel claims of Russian Federation killing scores of their fighters.
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There’s proof in that Russian Federation unlawfully used unguided bombs in densely populated areas of Syria in addition to cluster munitions, the human rights group stated in a report published Wednesday.
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Two other people were being treated, one who had gone into labor and another patient who had an asthma attack, the agency tweeted. One witness told television station WCNC that he heard multiple shots and then was swept up in a crush of people running away.
Witnesses described how the bustling Sunday market became a scene of carnage in seconds, with local media activist Mohammed Qurabi al-Ghazal quoted as saying: “In just a few moments, people were screaming, the smell of burning was in the air and there was just chaos”. The think tank found that ninety-percent of Russian air strikes have not targeted the Islamic State.
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Russian Federation claims its air raids are only targeting ISIS and what it considers other terrorist groups.
Shoebridge insists that “some degree of civilian casualties” is nearly inevitable from any aerial campaign even with the most precise weapons, but says that even people witnessing the attacks on the ground can’t point to the perpetrator with any degree of certainty.
Attacks included one on a crowded market in Ariha, in Idlib province, with a death toll of 49 civilians, and another on a residential building in Al Ghantu, in Homs province, in which 32 children and minors and 11 women were reported dead.
“It’s unusual that Amnesty International avoids a question about who committed war crimes in Syria before the appearance of a Russian air force group there”.
“Russia is conducting its operation in strict conformity with principles and norms of the global law, including those sections of the worldwide law that regulate using and bans on using one or another type of weapons”, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said. Amnesty called on Russian Federation to “end indiscriminate and proportionate attacks” and comply with worldwide law.
“If they are behind it or if they are even perceived to be behind it, then I think that other parties are going to question the seriousness of Russia’s commitment to the United Nations process”, said Katz.
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A defiant Russian Defence Ministry says the report, which contains “trite cliches” and “fake information”, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a news briefing.
