Ghouta chemical attack | |
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Part of the Siege of Eastern Ghouta | |
Location | Ghouta, Syria |
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Date | 21 August 2013[2] |
Attack type | Chemical attack |
Deaths | Various estimates: |
Injured | 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms in 3 hospitals supported by MSF[5] |
Perpetrators | Syrian government[16][17][18][note 1] |
Charges | Bashar and Maher al-Assad and two other Syrian senior government officials charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes[19] |
Litigation | French arrest warrants for the Assad brothers and the two other officials[19] |
The Ghouta chemical attack was a chemical attack carried out by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the early hours of 21 August 2013 in Ghouta, Syria during the Syrian civil war.[17] Two opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin.[16] Estimates of the death toll range from at least 281 people[3] to 1,729.[15] The attack was the deadliest use of chemical weapons since the Iran–Iraq War.[20][21]
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Evidence collected in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, and over the last seven years, demonstrates that the Syrian government carried out the attacks.
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