A man breathes through an oxygen mask after what activists said was a chlorine gas attack on Kansafra village at Idlib countryside, Syria May 7, 2015. (Reuters / Abed Kontar)
Geneva: Qatar renewed yesterday its call on the international community to present war criminals in Syria to international justice, after an independent UN investigation proved that the Syrian regime used Sarin gas in the Khan Sheikhoun massacre in April.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday in a statement that leaving the perpetrators unpunished for their crimes will contribute to increasing the violence and violations against the Syrian people.
The statement stressed on the importance of reaching a political resolution to the Syria crisis based on Geneva 1 and on related UN Security Council resolutions, in order to realise the demands of the Syrian people. United Nations war crimes investigators said they had evidence that Syrian government forces were behind a chemical attack that killed dozens of people in Khan Sheikhun in April. In the first UN report to officially blame Damascus, the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria said it had gathered an “extensive body of information” showing the Syrian air force was behind the attack on April 4. “All evidence available leads the Commission to conclude that there are reasonable grounds to believe Syrian forces dropped an aerial bomb dispersing sarin in Khan Sheikhun,” the report said.
