The Syrian regime carried out at least 14 chemical attacks following the Khan Sheikhoun attack in Idlib, according to a report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) published on Thursday.
The report’s release coincides with the second anniversary of a regime chemical attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the northwestern Idlib province.
“For the Syrian people, today’s date, April 4, brings back painful memories; this year is the second anniversary of the second most lethal chemical attack in Syria after the attack of the western and eastern Ghouta in August 2013, when a fixed-wing SU-22 warplane of the Syrian regime targeted the northern neighborhood of Khan Sheikoun in the southern suburbs of Idlib on Tuesday morning, April 4, 2017, using a missile containing poison gas believed to be sarin, killing at least 91 civilians, including 32 children and 23 women (adult female), all of whom were fatally asphyxiated,” it said.
The report also underlined that the most recent attack was in Douma attack on Apr. 7, 2018.
“The Security Council and the international community bear responsibility for the subsequent uses of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, because their shameful and weak reaction to this atrocity encouraged the Syrian regime to repeatedly perpetrate violations that constitute war crimes safe in the knowledge of its impunity. “
It also stated that no concrete judicial steps have been taken against Damascus regime in the last two years, even though its responsibility for the attacks was confirmed.
According to the report, the Syrian regime carried out a total of 216 chemical attacks since the civil war began in 2011, mostly in the governorates of Damascus suburbs and the Idlib province.
