{"id":1366,"date":"2013-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Syria: UN report on the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta District of Damascus on 21 August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n17 September 2013 &#8211; The UN Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons  in the Syrian Arab Republic investigating the 21 August attacks on  the outskirts of Damascus on Monday reported that it had found  convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used on a large scale.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmnesty  International condemns the use of chemical weapons in the strongest  possible terms. They are internationally banned and their use is a  war crime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCrimes  under international law are being perpetrated on a daily basis in  Syria. Accountability for the 21 August attacks and other violations  are long overdue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe  reiterate our call for the UN-mandated Commission of Inquiry on Syria  to be given immediate and unfettered access to Syria to seek to  uncover further evidence about who was responsible for these attacks.  It should also be allowed to investigate the other crimes under  international law being committed by all parties to the conflict.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmnesty  International also urges the UN Security Council to refer the  situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and to insist  that the Syrian government grants cross-border access, as well as  cross-line access, to humanitarian aid. All parties to the conflict  must allow provision of assistance on the basis of need, without  discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 September 2013 &#8211; The UN Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic investigating the 21 August attacks on the outskirts of Damascus on Monday reported that it had found convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used on a large scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}