UN: Syrian Rebels, Not Gov’t Used Chemical Weapons

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The United Nations investigators revealed they have found testimony from victims and medical staff which shows that the armed groups used the nerve agent sarin in Syria.
Sarin was classified as a weapon of mass destruction in UN Resolution 687.

The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria could not find any evidence that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons against militants, commission member Carla Del Ponte said on Sunday.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated," Del Ponte said in television interview.

The former Swiss attorney-general who also served as prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia also stated: "This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities."

This comes to refute the US- "Israeli" claims that there are "varying degrees of confidence" that sarin has been used by Syria's government on its people.

It is worth mentioning that he Geneva-based inquiry into war crimes and other human rights violations is separate from an investigation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria instigated by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which has since stalled.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org