UN warns Syrian airstrike in Douma may amount to war crime, Damascus slams criticism

The UN has warned that a Syrian forces’ airstrike in the Damascus suburb of Douma which killed over 100 people on Sunday may amount to a war crime. Meanwhile, the Syrian government slammed criticism from the UN envoy, accusing him of “abandoning impartiality.”

“Any intentional direct attack against civilians or civilian objects as well as the use of indiscriminate weapons in densely populated areas are serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law and may amount to a war crime,” Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday.

He said that at least 111 civilians were reportedly been killed and at least 200 others were injured in the “outrageous” bombing of a busy market place in the center of Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta region of rural Damascus.

The Syrian government on Tuesday blasted UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura for his criticism of the Sunday air attack. It accused him of abandoning “impartiality” and stated that his remarks were “biased and based on the inaccurate information spread by Syria’s enemies.”‘

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