Russian Federation started its campaign of air strikes against militants in Syria on September 30, saying it wanted to help the Kremlin’s main Middle East ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, defeat Islamic State and other militant groups.
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Amnesty International says Russian air raids in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and may amount to war crimes.
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Russia’s military “unlawfully used unguided bombs in densely populated areas and inherently indiscriminate cluster munitions”, the report said.
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“Some Russian attacks seem to have been directly targeted towards civilians and civilian objects”. Witnesses are quoted as describing how the market became a scene of carnage in seconds.
Syrian opposition groups, however, also blamed Russian Federation for the strikes in Idlib, which they said killed more than 40 people, many of them civilians.
The official added that USA authorities had evidence showing that some Russian airstrikes had not been “as precise” and had received “credible allegations” of Russian strikes hitting facilities such as hospitals and schools and killing or wounding innocent people.
In another attack five civilians were killed and a dozen homes were destroyed when a suspected Russian sea-launched cruise missile struck residential buildings in Darat Izza, Aleppo governorate, on 7 October.
“We have documented, in detail, six attacks”, Anna Neistat, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Research told RFI.
The UN “cannot independently confirm” information presented in Amnesty International’s report on alleged civilian casualties of Russian airstrikes in Syria. “Such attacks may constitute war crimes”.
“Once again, nothing concrete or new was published, only the same cliches and fakes that we have already debunked repeatedly”, Russian defense ministry spokesman, General-Major Igor Konashenkov, said after reviewing the report. Russia’s military, while in possession of precision-guided munitions, has predominantly used unguided weapons or “dumb bombs” – many of them decades old – against targets in Syria. But on Monday when asked about whether Russian Federation was using cluster bombs, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was “conducting its operation in strict conformity with principles and norms of the global law”, the BBC reported. “Russian aviation does not use them”, he said.
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Nearly 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, and millions of others have been displaced.
