Satu imej edaran yang dikeluarkan oleh pembangkang Syria Shaam News Network pada 17 Ogos 2013 menunjukkan banyak rosak bangunan di Zamalka, pinggir bandar ibu negara Damsyik Syria. (AFP Photo) (A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network on August 17, 2013 shows heavily damaged buildings in Zamalka, a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. AFP Photo (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
MADAyuMadyan – Pembangkang Syria janji untuk memastikan keselamatan pemeriksa PBB di kawasan-kawasan yang dikuasai pemberontak. Pembangkang Syria berkata mereka akan memastikan keselamatan kimia senjata PBB pakar kerana mereka melalui kawasan yang dikuasai pemberontak, sambil menambah bahawa mereka yang berjaya tiba di tapak serangan gas yang dikatakan berhampiran Damsyik dalam masa 48 jam adalah ‘Kritikal’.
“Kami akan memastikan keselamatan pasukan PBB. . . Ia adalah penting bahawa orang-orang pemeriksa sampai ke sana dalam tempoh 48 jam, “Khaled Saleh, jurucakap pembangkang, pada sidang akhbar di Istanbul.
Pemeriksa PBB meminta akses ke Damsyik pinggir bandar “tanpa kelewatan” pada hari Khamis untuk menyiasat dakwaan penggunaan senjata kimia dalam serangan di negara ini. Kenyataan itu dibuat sehari selepas serangan gas dilaporkan oleh aktivis pembangkang di ibu membunuh mana-mana antara ‘puluhan’ ke ‘1, 300, menurut laporan yang bercanggah.
Kerajaan Syria berkata pada hari Khamis bahawa ia telah bersedia untuk melibatkan diri dalam kerjasama “Maksimum” dengan pakar-pakar PBB, menurut Kementerian Luar Rusia. Pasukan penyiasatan PBB memasuki negara ini pada Ahad lepas. 3 minggu lalu satu perjanjian telah dicapai dengan kerajaan Presiden Syria Bashar Assad, mengenai 3 lokasi yang berbeza yang telah diperiksa oleh misi.
Sekitar 13 laporan yang berbeza penggunaan senjata kimia di Syria didakwa telah dibuat ke PBB, dan laman yang sedang diperiksa untuk menentukan pihak yang bertanggung jawab dalam serangan yang didakwa.
Rusia disediakan PBB dengan analisis sampel yang diambil dari barat Aleppo di Khan Al ‘Assal. Daerah ini merupakan tapak serangan senjata kimia Mac 2013 apabila 30 orang mati. Penemuan Rusia setakat ini telah menunjukkan bahawa pemberontak di belakang kejadian itu.
Syrian opposition promises to ensure UN inspectors' safety in rebel-controlled areas. The Syrian opposition said they will ensure the safety of UN chemical weapons experts as they pass through rebel-controlled areas, adding that their successful arrival at the site of an alleged gas attack near Damascus within 48 hours was ‘critical.’
“We will ensure the safety of the U.N. team ... It is critical that those inspectors get there within 48 hours,” Khaled Saleh, spokesman for the opposition, told a news conference in Istanbul.
The UN inspectors requested access to Damascus suburbs “without delays” on Thursday in order to investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons in attacks in the country. The statement was made the day after a gas attack was reported by opposition activists in the capital killing anywhere between ‘dozens’ to ‘1,300’, according to conflicting reports.
The Syrian government said on Thursday that it was ready to engage in “maximum” cooperation with UN experts, according to Russia’s foreign ministry. The UN investigative team entered the country last Sunday. Three weeks ago an agreement was reached with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government regarding the three different locations that were to be examined by the mission.
Around 13 different reports of alleged chemical weapons usage in Syria have been made to the UN, and the sites are being examined in order to determine the responsible parties in the alleged attacks.
Russia provided the UN with an analysis of samples taken from western Aleppo in Khan al-Assal. The district was the site of a chemical weapons attack in March 2013 when 30 people died. Russia’s findings so far have indicated that rebels were behind the incident.
Seorang budak lelaki Syria berjalan di atas runtuhan bangunan yang musnah di bandar Syria utara Aleppo (A Syrian boy walks on the rubble of destroyed buildings in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. AFP Photo (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Amerika Syarikat telah mengisytiharkan bahawa mereka mempunyai data mereka sendiri mencadangkan tentera kerajaan yang bertanggungjawab untuk serangan ini. Walau bagaimanapun, Paulo Pinheiro, pengerusi suruhanjaya siasatan PBB ke dalam pencabulan hak asasi di Syria, berkata rekod Amerika Syarikat tidak memenuhi standard yang dikehendaki oleh PBB.
Setiausaha Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon berkata pada Jumaat bahawa akan ada “akibat yang serius” jika laporan penggunaan senjata kimia berubah menjadi benar. “Mana-mana penggunaan senjata kimia di mana sahaja, oleh sesiapa sahaja, di bawah mana-mana keadaan, akan melanggar undang-undang antarabangsa,” kata Ban pada acara yang dijadualkan di Korea Selatan Ibu negara Seoul pada hari Jumaat.
“Apa-apa jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan harus menyebabkan akibat yang serius untuk pelaku,” katanya. Jurucakap Ban memberitahu Reuters pada hari Jumaat bahawa dia mahu “menyeluruh, siasatan adil dan segera” ke dalam serangan gas kimia yang dikatakan.
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama menyatakan pada hari Jumaat bahawa negara ini perlu bunga dengan berhati-hati dalam tindak balas kepada serangan jelas yang paling baru-baru ini, sebagai pembantu beliau mencari lebih kemungkinan tindakan ketenteraan terhadap kerajaan Syria. Dalam temu bual itu, yang pertama sejak serangan pada Rabu, beliau dipanggil laporan yang keluar dari negara “sangat bermasalah” dan “peristiwa besar yang membimbangkan.”
Moscow telah berterusan untuk memantau peristiwa sekitar serangan, jurucakap yang dikatakan Kementerian Luar Rusia, Aleksandr Lukashevich, berkata dalam satu kenyataan pada Jumaat.
“Kami mendapat lebih banyak bukti baru bahawa ini perbuatan jenayah adalah bersifat provokatif,” tegas beliau. “Secara khususnya, terdapat laporan yang diedarkan di Internet yang bahan-bahan kejadian dan tuduhan terhadap tentera kerajaan telah diberikan untuk beberapa jam sebelum yang dipanggil serangan. Oleh itu, ia adalah satu tindakan yang dirancang.”
The US has declared that they have their own data suggesting government forces were responsible for the attack. However, Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN commission’s inquiry into rights violations in Syria, said US records did not meet the standards required by the UN.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that there will be “serious consequences” if the reports of chemical weapons usage turn out to be true. “Any use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anybody, under any circumstances, would violate international law,” Ban said at a scheduled event in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Friday.
“Such a crime against humanity should result in serious consequences for the perpetrator,” he added. A spokesperson for Ban told Reuters on Friday that he wants a “thorough, impartial and prompt investigation” into the alleged chemical gas attack.
US President Barack Obama stated on Friday that the country should tread with caution in response to the most recent apparent attack, as his aides mulled over the prospect of military action against Syria’s government. In the interview, which was his first since Wednesday’s strike, he called the reports coming out of the country “very troublesome” and a “big event of grave concern.”
Moscow has been continuing to monitor events surrounding the alleged attack, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aleksandr Lukashevich, said in a statement on Friday.
“We’re getting more new evidence that this criminal act was of a provocative nature,” he stressed. “In particular, there are reports circulating on the Internet that the materials of the incident and accusations against government troops had been posted for several hours before the so-called attack. Thus, it was a pre-planned action.”
