Syrian Coalition Questions Assad’s Declaration of his Entire Chemical Weapons Cache

The Organization of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Monday that the Assad regime began destroying the remaining chemical weapons facilities in the country this weekend, although the bad weather has slowed down the process.” Political committee member Badr Jamous raises doubts about Assad’s claims that he has declared all of his stockpiles of chemical weapons as it has been proven that his troops continue to use toxic chlorine gas in many places across Syria, mostly in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus. Jamous points out the international community’s lukewarm response to Assad’s gassing of civilians in Eastern Ghouta on August 21, 2013 shocked us deeply as this is the most horrific crime of the twenty-first century. The United States withdrew the threat of the use of force against the Assad regime and shirked its humanitarian and international obligations when Obama’s administration agreed to deal with the Assad regime to give up his chemical weapons cache. The Assad regime saw this a green light to commit more crimes against the Syrian people. “Rather than reaching settlements with Assad at the expense of the Syrian people, the international community should have punished him for gassing hundreds of civilians in the Ghouta chemical attack. It important to note that the UN Security Council’s resolution whereby Assad’s stockpiles of chemical weapons will be destroyed remains largely unimplemented. Residents in Damascus and leaders in the Free Syrian Army said that the Assad regime removed stockpiles of weapons from his declared facilities and hid them underground in at least five different locations near the capital. (Source: Syrian Coalition)