A unit of elite Syrian troops was responsible for a 2018 chemical weapons attack that killed 43 civilians in the Syrian town of Douma, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday.
A previous effort by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had already concluded that a chemical attack had taken place in Douma, but had no mandate to assign blame.Friday, it described an exhaustive effort to do just that — investigators combed through 1.86 terabytes of data, took 66 witness statements and examined data from 70 samples.
“The Assad regime did not merely ‘get away’ with its use of these banned weapons,” the Berlin-based Global Public Policy Institute said in 2019. “It succeeded in using them for strategic ends.” The Investigation and Identification Team, which wrote the report, was established by member states at the Hague-based OPCW in November 2018, after Russia vetoed a joint U.N.-OPCW mission to Syria.Although investigators modeled tens of thousands of possible trajectories for two yellow cylinders that appeared in photographs shortly after the strike, they were unable to examine the weapons themselves. The Syrian government, it said, notified the OPCW in 2019 that it had destroyed the containers.
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