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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 02:04 PM Apr 2014

UN must block flow of arms to Syria: Human Rights Watch

An international rights group called on Tuesday for the UN Security Council to block the flow of weapons to Syria's regime, which it said was launching indiscriminate attacks with "barrel bombs". It urged the United Nations to block the flow of arms to the government and any group committing abuses against civilians in the war-torn country where an estimated 150,000 people have been killed in the past three years.

Its statement comes more than two months after a February 22 Security Council resolution demanding an end to attacks on civilian areas.

HRW said that since then it "has documented at least 85 strike sites in (opposition-held) neighbourhoods of Aleppo city... including two government barrel bomb attacks on clearly marked official hospitals". The strikes, most reportedly involving "unguided, high-explosive barrel bombs", have hit civilians and civilian objects "indiscriminately"

Such attacks "continue despite a United Nations Security Council Resolution unanimously passed on February 22, 2014, demanding that all parties in Syria cease the indiscriminate use of barrel bombs and other weapons in populated areas," HRW said. The rights group said the supply of arms to rebel groups that have committed systematic abuses must also stop.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/un-must-block-flow-of-arms-to-syria-human-rights-watch-515514

Though the Security Council passed the resolution 2 months ago demanding an end to attacks on civilian areas it has had no effect. I'm sure no one is shocked. Will the Security Council do anything in response? No one will be shocked by its inaction.

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