Washington demands that the Assad regime be held accountable for its chemical crimes
In a statement, the US State Department demanded that the Assad regime be held accountable for its chemical crimes, in conjunction with the anniversary of the chemical attacks on Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib countryside and Douma city in Rural Damascus.
“This week marks a tragic anniversary for the regime’s numerous chemical weapons attacks on its people,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a tweet on Twitter. Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, 2017, and Douma on April 7, 2018, and the Assad regime must fulfill its international obligations and is also held accountable for these atrocities.
It is reported that on April 4, 2017, the Assad regime targeted the city of Khan Sheikhoun with chemical weapons, which led to a massacre in which dozens of civilians, including children, were killed.
Edmund Moleh, head of the United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for Syria, confirmed in November 2017 that the Assad regime was responsible for the Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack.
On April 8, 2020, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) held, for the first time, the regime’s forces responsible for chemical weapons attacks that targeted the town of Al-Lataminah in Hama Governorate in 2017, after the task of determining the party that carried out the attacks was assigned to the organization.
