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The SJAC Weekly Update- September 10, 2013

Chemical Weapons Aren't the Only Lethal

Weapons in Syria

With international

condemnation once again

narrowed in on the use of 

chemical weapons in

Syria, other grave human

rights violations escape

such attention. As

 American comedian Jon

Stewart sarcastically put it, “you can’t use chemicals to kill your own

people, you have to do it organically.” The satire underlines the

unfortunate reality that, while deserving of outrage, fixation on

chemical weapons overshadows other ongoing and well-

documented violations committed by the government as well as

r ebels in Syria.

If disgust and horror explain the focus on chemical weapons, there

is no shortage of gruesome attacks using other weapons that the

international community has long sought to ban. As mentioned in

our previous post, the BBC investigated and rebroadcast videos

showing the aftermath of an apparent incendiary bomb attack on a

school playground in Northern Syria last month. “Like the walking

dead” is how the victims are characterized; the video shows people

with scorched skin, wailing in pain and stumbling to walk. But the

attack wasn’t an isolated incident. According to a Human Rights

Watch (HRW) report on aerial bombing in Syria, incendiary

weapons were used at least five times in November and December 

of last year. (Image from BBC video report on incendiary attack in

Syria.)

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