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Re: U.N. Panel Reports Increasing Brutality by Both Sides in Syria Conflict

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U.N. Panel Reports Increasing Brutality by Both Sides in Syria Conflict

...this should be in the "Who Cares" file.




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U.N. Panel Reports Increasing Brutality by Both Sides in Syria Conflict
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Tue, 04 Jun 13 2:09 PM 		Msg. 52832 of 65535

U.N. Panel Reports Increasing Brutality by Both Sides in Syria Conflict

Reporting “new levels of brutality” in Syria’s more than two-year-old conflict, United Nations investigators said on Tuesday that they believed chemical weapons and thermobaric bombs were used in recent weeks and urged the international community to cut off supplies of weapons that could only result in more civilian casualties.

The Commission of Inquiry investigating the hostilities in Syria said “there are reasonable grounds to believe limited quantities of toxic chemicals were used” in Aleppo and Damascus on March 19, in Aleppo again on April 13 and in Idlib on April 29.

“Crimes that shock the conscience have become a daily reality,” said Paulo Pinheiro, the panel’s chairman.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/world/middleeast/un-panel-reports-increasing-brutality-by-both-sides-in-syria.html?emc=na

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