French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said that France will propose a resolution to the UN Security Council to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control.
Seven million Syrians have been displaced and more than 100,000 killed in the ongoing civil war, nearly one third of the country’s population, with the international community still divided on how to reduce the bloodshed.
The reports of a chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus has caused condemnation from around the world, with Russia backing a UN investigation into the claims and US President Obama calling it a “grave concern”.
Rebel activists in Syria are reporting that chemical weapons attacks by Assad’s forces have killed hundreds of people on the outskirts of Damascus.
The high number of killings committed outside the law in Syria by all sides of the conflict visualise the failure of the judiciary system and the underlying major human rights crisis in the country.