The UK and France, during an emergency
security council session on the conflict in Syria
on Sunday bluntly and repeatedly accused
Russia of collaborating with Syria to perpetuate
war crimes in Aleppo.
According to the UK, Russia has carried out
widespread use of bunker-busting and incendiary
bombs on the 275,000 civilians living in the
rebel-held Aleppo in Syria, saying this weapons
were dropped by Russian aircraft.
Russia and US had agreed to stop air attacks on
Aleppo last week so that food,water, medicine
and clothing could safely reach those suffering
in the area but any hopes of a ceasefire were
bashed last week when the UN aid convoy and
warehouse were attacked viciously.
More worryingly, the bombardment of Aleppo
entered a fifth consecutive day on Monday , after
95 people were killed in the east of the city on
Sunday , according to doctors with the number of
wounded totaling 398, including 61 children.
“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.”
French ambassador Francois Delattre said :
“They must not be unpunished,” he said.
“Impunity is simply not an option in
Syria. Aleppo is to Syria what Sarajevo
was to Bosnia, or what Guernica was to
the Spanish war,” the French envoy said.
“this week will go down in history as the
one in which diplomacy failed and
barbarism triumphed”.
US ambassador Samantha Power said: “What
Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-
terrorism. It is barbarism,”
“History will not look kindly on security
council members who stay silent in the
face of this carnage,” 'It's time to say
who is doing the bombing'
After Britain’s ambassador to the UN, Matthew
Rycroft made the accusations, himself, US
ambassador Samantha Power and French
ambassador Francois Delattre walked out of the
emergency security council session when the
Syrian ambassador began speaking.
What has happened over the last three days is
indescribable,” said Mohammad Abu Rajab, a
doctor in one of the largest hospitals in eastern
Aleppo.
“Words fail, pictures fail, everything fails.
Imagine the dead lying in the corridors,
corpses and wounded and blood flowing
everywhere,” he said. “We are standing
before inhumanity, real massacres,
extraordinary weapons whose blasts we
never heard before, never heard before
ever, they make the ground shake
beneath our feet.”
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