Khalid Saleh, head of the Media Office, said that “on the first anniversary of the chemical attacks on East Ghouta that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians, the Assad regime today repeated its crime targeting the Jobar district in Damascus with toxic gasses. Five people were killed in the attack and many more were injured. This attack serves only to demonstrates the criminal mentality of the Assad regime that is seeking to send a message to the international community on the first anniversary of the Ghouta attacks that it will not stop massacring the Syrian people in an uttermost defiance to the international community, and that it will continue to commit all kinds of atrocities and violations knowing no serious action will be taken to put an end to these crimes.” Hadi Al Bahra, president of the Syrian Coalition, said in a letter addressed to the Syrian people that “the Assad regime committed its most heinous crime amid the deafening silence of the international community which confiscated the he weapon but let the criminal loose. Apart from being a war crime, Assad’s handover of the weapon that the cost the Syrian people a lot is another crime.” Bahra also stresses that “we say to the whole world that we will calm down nor our conscience have rest till we see the perpetrator of this crime brought to justice. The Syrian Coalition has been making every effort to refer this crime to the International Criminal Court as the worst war crimes committed in our modern times. The pain of the dead and groans of the parents who watched their loved ones suffocate to death will guide us in our path and serve as an incentive for us to unite under one national banner of the homeland that we love and which we will rebuild whatever the odds.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)
