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French & US airstrikes ‘kill over 140 civilians’
The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to the UN secretary general and to the president of the UN Security Council, which at present is Japan.
Damascus wants the organization to look into atrocities committed by France, which is a member of the US-led international coalition, after it targeted the village of Toukhan Al-Kubra, located near the Turkish-Syrian border and the city of Manbij.
US-led Coalition warplanes have carried out an air-raid on Tokhar village north of #Manbij killing 10s of civilians pic.twitter.com/uqaWLLcvlM
— Hassan Ridha (@sayed_ridha) July 19, 2016
“The French unjust aggression claimed the lives of more than 120 civilians, most of them are children, women and elderly, in addition to tens of wounded citizens, the majority of them are also children and women as reports say that the fate of scores of other civilians who still under debris are unknown too,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry wrote, as cited by the Syrian Arab News Agency.
The mass death toll in Toukhan Al-Kubra came just a day after US war planes killed around 20 people, mainly women and children, while many more were injured in and around the city of Manbij, the Foreign Ministry states.
“The government of the Syrian Arab Republic condemns, with the strongest terms, the two bloody massacres perpetrated by the French and US warplanes and those affiliated to the so-called international coalition which send their missiles and bombs to the civilians instead of directing them to the terrorist gangs… Syria also affirms that those who want to combat terrorism seriously should coordinate with the Syrian government and army,” the ministry added.
In the letter, the Syrian Foreign Ministry added that it condemns the continued support by the US, France, Saudi Arabia, the UK and Qatar to terrorist organizations such as Al-Nusra Front and Jaish Al-Islam, despite these groups having clear links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Al-Qaeda.
MANBIJ: 20 JUL 2016. 0130 UTC. Heavy airstrikes continue. Nat’l Hospital taken. Fighting in W urban areas. #Manbijpic.twitter.com/gtHkaVLTj5
— Chuck Pfarrer (@ChuckPfarrer) July 20, 2016
The human rights watchdog Amnesty International also hit out at the US-led coalition, saying that it needs to do more to prevent the deaths of civilians.
“Anyone responsible for violations of international humanitarian law must be brought to justice and victims and their families should receive full reparation,” Amnesty’s interim Middle East director Magdalena Mughrabi said, as cited by Reuters.
A spokesman for the US Department of Defense says that it is aware of the loss of civilian life in Syria.
“We are aware of reports alleging civilian casualties near Manbij, Syria, recently. As with any allegation we receive, we will review any information we have about the incident,” Matthew Allen said in a statement.
“We take all measures during the targeting process to avoid or minimize civilian casualties or collateral damage and to comply with the principles of the Law of Armed Conflict,” he added.
Footage from earlier this month US bombing #Manbij#Syria. Yesterday bombs like this killed 100+ civilians Manbij…https://t.co/7AaVNSljiT
— DOAM (@doammuslims) July 20, 2016
The US-led coalition has been providing air support to the rebel group the Syrian Arab Coalition, which is involved in heavy fighting around the city of Manbij, currently under the control of Islamic State.
The terrorist group has been in control of the city since it seized large swathes of Syria and Iraq in the summer of 2014.
In an interview with NBC News last week, Syrian President Bashar Assad said that the US is not interested in defeating terrorists in Syria as it really wants “to control and use them.”
Western leaders support terror groups in Syria, get extremism at home – Assadhttps://t.co/3rla6XuLxbpic.twitter.com/INykh9Iy7k
— RT (@RT_com) July 11, 2016
“The reality is telling that, since the beginning of the American airstrikes, terrorism has been expanding and prevailing,” he told the channel, specifying that “during the American and alliance airstrikes, ISIS was expanding and taking over new areas in Syria.”
“It’s about being serious, having the will. The United States doesn’t have the will to defeat the terrorists. It had the will to control them and to use them as a card, like they did in Afghanistan. That will reflect on the military aspect of the issue,” Assad said.
14 Comments on "French & US airstrikes ‘kill over 140 civilians’"
penury on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 3:03 pm
Thank goodness it is U.
S. led forces doing the killing. Can you imagine the weeping, wailing and building of monuments we would have to do if it was terrorists? (sarc)
PracticalMaina on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 3:05 pm
yeah penury, it would actually make the news here!!!!! Instead we will be watching an hour long piece on trumps hair piece.
Anonymous on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 4:41 pm
Sounds like the uS is working hard to create ‘safe havens’, or ‘buffer zones’ still. This ‘syrian coalition’ is likely just a rebranded ‘USlamic state’ group. The only legitimate force that should be involved in liberating that city, is the Syrian Arab Army, Russia and its allies. Not the JEwnited States, France, or any of the illegal ‘international coalition’.
Im sure the uS state dept is working overtime for a way to blame this on either President Assad, or alternately, try and pin on it President Putin (personally).
Plantagenet on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 6:43 pm
Hey hey USA
How many kids did u kill today?
Go Speed Racer on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 8:37 pm
We keep blowing up their weddings. An their hospitals. Oops.
Apneaman on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 10:04 pm
Go Speed Racer, better stay out of crowded bars in case it’s the one the next terrorist decides to Ooops. Oh and stay off really crowded streets in case he steals a semi and decides to play go speed racer on your head. I bet that’s what the killer in France said every time he ran one over-Ooops.
Apneaman on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 11:43 pm
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Go Speed Racer on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 1:37 am
Hi Sleep Apnea,
ya hey whats really scary, is now that the muslim terrarists with TNT around their middle, showed waht you could do with a cheap rented cargo truck, stop and look around.
Ho Lee Fuk, those big Mack gravel trucks ? And they would put a half-load of sand in the back, so the bodies squish flatter. it would be a dreadful killing machine. with some iron panels on it, those muslims could kill 1000’s.
what they woudl say about the creep in city of Nice? ‘amateur’.
Looks like the only solution at this point, is elect Donald Trump. if elected, he will blow up more of their weddings. oops. and hospitals. oops.
Go Speed Racer on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 1:40 am
Definitely related, cause this cracker used iron panels to strengthen a bulldozer. he was going after buildings not people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXKAleVdp6s
peakyeast on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 8:09 am
If terrorists wanted to kill as many people as possible they could do so much more efficiently than they do. Way way and far far more.
Therefore its obvious that terrorists and their organisations are not out to kill people, but just to make statements.
The alternative is that they are all completely incompetent morons – and I find that hard to believe that ALL of them are.
GregT on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 10:00 am
“If terrorists wanted to kill as many people as possible they could do so much more efficiently than they do. Way way and far far more.”
Absolutely they could. Instead of indiscriminately bombing entire villages, towns, and cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people as they simply try to go about their day to day lives, the terrorists could use nuclear weapons. Of course that would render the spoils radioactive. It would still be good for the economy though.
rockman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 10:54 am
And thus the obvious reason to avoid military action unless absolutely necessary. So they are pissed at the French. Reminds of a story I ready long ago: during several months after our forces landed at Normandy the allies killed about 40,000 French civilians. How did this happen? The plan was to kill Germans. Germans that occupied French towns. French towns filled with civilians.
It wasn’t as though our forces could invite the Germans to relocate to the countryside so we could kill them more efficiently. There’s a long history of forces using civilian shields…sometimes even their own.
It also carries over to intentionally targeting civilians as we did with Dresden and Hiroshima: we weren’ fighting a war just against the German and Japanese military but against their entire population.
Just one of the reasons war is defined as “hell”.
Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 12:04 pm
Go Speed Racer, you have to give it to bulldozer man. He put his money where his mouth was. Back in the day a dude in Washington state did the same thing to his own house, but with a big trackhoe. His wife filed for divorce, so that was his way of dividing everything in half.
peakyeast on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 2:03 pm
@GregT: Perhaps you are confusing one terrorist group with another? I am talking about the MSM declared terrorist attacks on “westerners” – not those terrorists that are bombing the shit out of whoever is on top of the shit they want to maintain a life in luxury.