“We examined this report”, Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, said in a briefing.
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The three missiles fired on a public market in the northern Syrian town of Ariha took the morning shoppers by surprise. Witnesses are quoted as describing how the market became a scene of carnage in seconds.
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The report puts Russia’s air war in Syria under close scrutiny, focusing on six bombing raids on areas where Amnesty says there were no obvious military targets nearby.
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“Such attacks may amount to war crimes”, Luther said.
It accused Russian Federation of targeting residential areas in “indiscriminate attacks”.
The chair of Russia’s Defence and Security Committee, Viktor Ozerov, denied any civilian deaths and said Moscow had nothing to hide from the worldwide community regarding its role in Syria. It also reviewed statements published by the Russian Ministry of Defence and relevant articles in Russian and other media.
“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.
The Russian strikes “seem to have instantly attacked civilians or civilian objects by putting residential areas with no evident army goal and even medical amenities”, Philip Luther, director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Amnesty International, stated in a assertion.
“Such attacks may amount to war crimes”, he claimed.
Currently, apart from Russian Federation, the US-led coalition is also performing its own air strikes against ISIS targets in Syria.
A local activist group said a total of 49 civilians were either killed or missing and feared dead.
On Wednesday, chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s Committee on Defense and Security, called Amnesty’s report a “provocation”, according to a report in Sputnik, a state-run Russian news agency. “Such conduct does not cultivate confidence in their willingness to investigate reported violations in good faith”, said Phillip Hunter. The report accuses Moscow of having “shamefully” failed to admit that the raids caused civilian victims.
“It is important to look at the nature of Amnesty itself in terms of the credibility of its reporting”. “They included airstrikes on residential areas, homes and a mosque”.
Suspected Russian air strikes have also struck hospitals. He did not give his full name, fearing for his own safety.
Those findings echo a report released this week by Human Rights Watch that found at least 20 cases of cluster bomb use since Russian Federation and Syria joined a renewed assault on rebels and IS in late September.
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With an operating base at Hmeymim near Latakia in western Syria, Russia is able to launch as many as 80 sorties per day.
