10 years since the Ghouta massacre with chemical weapons, and the families of the victims are calling for the Syrian regime to be held accountable

ARK News... On Monday, August 21, 2023, marked the tenth anniversary of the Syrian regime’s bombing of Ghouta, Damascus, with chemical weapons, which killed about 1,450 civilians, including more than 200 children and women, and injured 6,000 others, according to data from the Syrian Network for Human Rights.

Despite the passage of a decade, the families of the victims are still calling for accountability for those responsible for this horrific massacre, which is the most tragic in the Syrian revolution that began in 2011.

Before dawn on August 21, 2013, the Syrian regime bombed towns in the eastern and western Ghouta, including Zamalka, Irbin and Moadamiya, with dozens of missiles believed to contain sarin gas.

After investigations that lasted for years, international organizations - including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - confirmed the Syrian regime's responsibility for several chemical weapons attacks, but the regime constantly denied this, and Russia prevented it from being condemned and held accountable in the UN Security Council.

The Ghouta massacre in 2013 was followed by an international move that led to the destruction of the Syrian regime's stockpile and mechanism for producing chemical weapons.

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