KM ANIK
24 UPDATE
28/10/2017
Country Bases "UNI"
Reported in BANGLADESH
United Nations investigators on Thursday blamed a sarin gas massacre on Bashar al-Assad's regime, as the United States renewed its warning that he has no role in Syria's future.The expert panel's report and tough remarks by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson overshadowed the announcement that UN-sponsored peace talks will resume next month.More than 80 people died on April 4 this year when sarin gas projectiles were fired into Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the Idlib province of northwestern Syria.Images of dead and dying victims, including young children, in the aftermath of the attack provoked global outrage and a US cruise missile strike on a regime air base.The UN placed the death toll at 83 while the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was 87.
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Syria and its ally Russia had suggested that a rebel weapon may have detonated on the ground but the UN panel confirmed Western intelligence reports that blamed the regime."The panel is confident that the Syrian Arab Republic is responsible for the release of sarin at Khan Sheikhun on 4 April 2017," the report, seen by AFP, says.Russia yesterday criticised the UN report with a deputy foreign minister saying it contained inconsistencies and unverified evidence."Even the first cursory read shows that many inconsistencies, logical discrepancies, using doubtful witness accounts and unverified evidence... all of this is still (in the report)," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Interfax news agency.UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said yesterday the humanitarian situation in the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus is "an outrage" and parties to the conflict must allow food and medicine to reach at least 350,000 trapped Syrians, reported Reuters.
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