By Jaime Ortega.
Even though the evidence points to Al-Qaeda as responsible for the chemical attack, the FSA and activist supporting the group demanded the international community to prosecute Bachad Assad.
The opponents of the Syrian regime are vehemently opposed to the commitment that Russia wants to achieve in the field of chemical weapons. “If the international community does not punish the regime for the use of poison gas, this will only encourage countries like Iran and North Korea,” notes the opposition.
It also could be interpreted as a “green light” for the manufacture and proliferation of their own weapons of mass destruction, said the Syrian National Coalition, based in Istanbul.
The only consequence of the crime should not be that Syrian President Bashar Assad, leaves under international control the use of chemical weapons, “more is needed.” That, according to the opposition in exile, such intolerable move would be a great loss of credibility.
The Arab League welcomed the proposal to destroy chemical weapons. But in turn warned that all this will not contribute to a ceasefire and much less so to stop a brutal civil war. “This proposal should by no means be submitted so that the criminals go unpunished using their chemical weapons (on August 21, 2013) in Al Ghuta to Sharkiya” said the organization’s secretary general, Nabil al-Arabi, during a special meeting in Cairo.
Al Arabi would not comment on the content of the conversation with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. But later occurred that the Russian minister was asked by United Nations to be responsible for controlling chemical weapons.
The chief of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Salim Idriss, demanded that the International Criminal Court should prosecute those responsible for the poison gas attack.
In today’s session, the opponents of the regime suffered from airstrikes and reported casualties in ten provinces. Until noon had counted 44 dead in the country, including only 18 in the province of Daraa.
