The United Nations envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has condemned indiscriminate rocket attacks targeting civilians in government-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo. The envoy has said the use of disproportionate and indiscriminate weapons in civilian areas is unjustifiable and could amount to war crimes. The most recent offensive to break the Syrian government’s siege of western Aleppo has left a large number of civilians dead and injured. Militants involved in the attack included FSA and Jaish al-Fatah, an alliance of terrorist factions supported by Riyadh and Ankara.
Talking to Press TV, Gordon Duff, senior editor of the Veterans Today, said that the United Nations has eventually started to condemn war crimes committed by terrorists who are wreaking havoc in Syria.
Duff explained that out of all reactions by the UN, a reaction by the Security Council is perhaps the most significant. "Russia supported the action of the Security Council, which sort of leans toward possibly considering that the terrorist groups may actually have done acts of terror.”
According to the commentator, the move to condemn the militants “is pretty new since the US has routinely protected the terror organizations operating against Damascus from any repercussions of UN condemnation.”
“There are a lot of things that don’t make any sense of what’s going on, other than the fact that the people of Aleppo were being slaughtered, and that de Mistura stood up and began to call a spade a spade. It’s perhaps a new factor in this” conflict in Syria, he maintained.
He, however, drew attention to the fact the new stance against the terrorists is “public relations” on the part of the United Nations over the indiscriminate massacre of civilians in Aleppo.
Pointing to plots hatched by supporters of the terrorists to save them from attacks carried out by the Syrian government forces with the support of Russian airstrikes, he noted, “Russia is being blackmailed in any way possible to limit their use of air power, while Turkey is bringing in hundreds of jihadists.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Duff referred to the American election year as a big problem in the way of US potential military presence in Syria, adding that “there is not going to be any US action other than the usual drone bombings” because of the risk of repercussions.
Since March 2011, foreign mercenaries have taken up arms to turn Syria into a destabilized country and topple the Syrian government. The terrorist groups have resorted to different tactics including the use of chemical weapons against civilians, but Syria, with the support of Russia, has foiled their plots.
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