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Amnesty: Russian bombing of Syria may be a war crime

The strikes it examined were carried out in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Idlib and Latakia.

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Some Russian strikes “seem to have attacked military objectives and civilian objects without distinction, or caused disproportionate harm to civilians when striking military targets”, Amnesty said in the report.


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Amnesty International reported that Russian air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed residential areas of the country, trying to prove there is evidence of violations of the international law.


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“We have documented, in detail, six attacks”, Anna Neistat, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Research told RFI. As an ally to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia deems both the Islamic State and rebel groups opposing Assad as “terrorists”.

Amnesty’s report also said the group has gathered evidence, including photos and video footage, suggesting the Russians have used unguided bombs in densely populated civilian areas, as well as internationally banned deadly cluster munitions.

Sources inside Syria told Breitbart News last month that Russian Federation was dropping cluster munitions indiscriminately on civilian targets. In another attack on a busy market in the center of Ariha of the Idlib governorate, 49 civilians were killed. ” Amnesty confirmed they are also working on a report on USA strikes in Syria, but did not say when this would be released. So, on those counts, we believe that it has most likely committed war crimes”, says Amnesty’s Neil Sammonds.

Russia’s bombing of Syria has killed many civilians and may amount to a war crime, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that Moscow’s actions had violated humanitarian law.

Between 30 September and the 29 November this year more than 25 attacks claimed only civilian lives.

“Incidentally, some of these vehicles have got into Syria from the United States territory, which has already been proved”, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said. “We’ve seen with earlier conflicts in Chechnya and Afghanistan, that Russian forces have a track record of unleashing bad waves of indiscriminate attacks in residential areas”.

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated December …

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Yesterday, the Turkish Prime Minister condemned a suspected Russian attack that killed scores of people in the city of Idlib on Sunday. A single cluster bomb may hold hundreds of submunitions.

Amnesty Russia airstrikes killed 200 civilians in Syria