The Syrian people have not forgotten the massacre that the Assad regime committed against the Syrian people on August 21, 2013. Salwa Aksoy, member of the Syrian Opposition’s (SOC) political committee, said that nine years after the Assad regime’s sarin attack on eastern Ghouta, and despite all the evidence that proves without a doubt the regime’s responsibility for the massacre, and despite the Syrians’ calls for accountability, the international community has so far failed to serve justice through the mechanisms it established for this purpose.”
Member of the committee Bahjat Atassi, said: “The survival of Bashar al-Assad in power nine years after the Massacre of Eastern Ghouta, in which more than 1,400 people were killed, exposed the international community’s failure to punish the criminals, serve justice and achieve peace. The true place for this criminal is the International Criminal Court.”
Member of the committee Munther Serras said: “Nine years ago, the Assad regime committed a massacre in the biggest chemical attack in the world since the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997. The chemical attack on eastern Ghouta in 2013 was one of 184 chemical attacks that the criminal Assad regime has for committed in Syria.”
Member of the Committee, Basma Muhammad, said that “the Syrian people suffered the ultimate betrayal when the international community did not show serious response towards the chemical attack that the Assad regime launched in eastern Ghouta near Damascus in August 2013. Nevertheless, the Syrian people continue with their struggle against the Assad regime, and insist on demanding accountability and a genuine political transition in Syria.”
Member of the committee, Abdul-Basit Abdul-Latif, said: “It is regrettable that the Assad regime still has a place in international forums despite the horrible massacres it is committing against the Syrian people. Nine years ago, Assad killed 1,400 civilians with sarin in eastern Ghouta near Damascus.”
Member of the SOC’s General Assembly, Farouk Tayfour, stressed that “the Assad regime is a regime of extermination as the images of children grasping for air nine years ago still bear witness to that horrific crime. More than 1,400 civilians were killed in eastern Ghouta in rural Damascus on August 21, 2013. The Syrian people still insist on serving justice even though the criminal is still at large and committing more crimes with impunity.”
(Source: SOC’s media department)
