# SYRIA COMMITTEES / AND THE CHEMICAL ATTACKS OF MAY 2013 ? “SYRIAN REBELS USED SARIN NERVE GAS, NOT ASSAD’S REGIME”: U.N. OFFICIAL CARLA DEL PONTE …

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With The Washington Times – BBC – Swiss TV – PCN-SPO / 2013 08 28 /

What said The Washington Times, on May 6, 2013 :

“Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation”, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday (6 may) (… ) “Damascus has recently facing growing Western accusations that its forces used such weapons, which President Obama has described as crossing a red line. But Ms. del Ponte’s remarks may serve to shift the focus of international concern” sais also the US daily.

Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent”. But she said also that “her panel had not yet seen any evidence of Syrian government forces using chemical weapons”, according to the BBC, but she added that more investigation was needed.

Del Ponte, a former Swiss prosecutor and attorney general, told Swiss TV: “Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals. 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.” he gave no further details, the BBC said.

CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE

Carla del Ponte, who in 1999 was appointed to head the U.N. was crimes tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, has sometimes been a controversial figure. She was removed from her Rwanda post by the U.N. Security Council in 2003, but she continued as the chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav tribunal until 2008.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria was established in August 2011 to examine alleged violations of human rights in the Syrian conflict which started in March that year.

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