Russia accused of war crimes in Syria at UN security council session
Source: The Guardian
Russia has been directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes at the UN security council in an unusually blunt session, as hopes of any form of ceasefire were flattened by the scale and ferocity of the Syrian regimes assault on eastern Aleppo.
The war crimes accusations centred on the widespread use of bunker-busting and incendiary bombs on the 275,000 civilians living in the rebel-held east of the city, weapons that Moscows accusers say were dropped by Russian aircraft.
Bunker-busting bombs, more suited to destroying military installations, are now destroying homes, decimating bomb shelters, crippling, maiming, killing dozens, if not hundreds, Matthew Rycroft, the UK ambassador to the UN said during the emergency security council session on Syria on Sunday.
Incendiary munitions, indiscriminate in their reach, are being dropped on to civilian areas so that, yet again, Aleppo is burning. And to cap it all, water supplies, so vital to millions, are now being targeted, depriving water to those most in need. In short, it is difficult to deny that Russia is partnering with the Syrian regime to carry out war crimes.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/25/russia-accused-war-crimes-syria-un-security-council-aleppo
Julian Borger World affairs editor
Sunday 25 September 2016 23.45 BST
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Russia has reacted furiously to Boris Johnson's suggestion its forces may be guilty of war crimes in Syria, as criticism of Moscow's role in Syria's conflict continue to mount.
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The Russian foreign ministry hit back petulantly on Sunday by suggesting British forces were guilty of war crimes in Iraq.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova retorted that Britain should look to its own record before criticising Russia.
"The foreign minister of Great Britain Boris Johnson said in a broadcast of the BBC that Russia is guilty of protracting civil war in Syria and, possibly, of committing war crimes in the form of air attacks on convoys with humanitarian aid," she said.
"All this is right except for two words: Instead of 'Russia' it needs to be 'Great Britain' and instead of 'Syria,' 'Iraq."'
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http://www.itv.com/news/2016-09-25/russia-hits-back-at-boris-johnsons-syria-war-crime-slur/
Lest we forget how this debacle in the middle east began...
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Hate to say.....
Waterboarding.... etc.....
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)our.
We have absolutely no moral grounds to stand on in the middle east.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)and more will die at the hands of Trump's pal Putin.
branford
(4,462 posts)What do you suggest Democratic President Obama or candidate Clinton do about Russian war crimes in Syria?
ripcord
(5,084 posts)Russia has a veto in the Security Council.
branford
(4,462 posts)must come from the UN Security Council? The USA is politically and militarily paralyzed without Security Council direction or approval?
Since when has this been US policy under either Republican or Democratic administrations?
I certainly hope Clinton doesn't offer such a position at the debate tomorrow, or we might as well get used to the idea of President Trump.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Make Putin heel.
Bastard.
jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)have already tried their best by trying to deflate oil price with the hope that it would hurt Russia and force it to roll back her support for the Syrian govt fighting western backed mercenaries.The US too have been rolling out sanctions after sanction of Russia but even with all of that, their economy is doing OK. Thank God all that effort by the west and their ME allies have failed and Syria still has a chance of escaping the fate of Libya.
I also think people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones seeing as the US and Britain have gotten away with war crimes in Libya, Yemen and Syria themselves.