Back هجوم الغوطة الكيميائي Arabic Химически атаки в Гута Bulgarian Chemické útoky v Ghútě Czech Giftgasangriffe von Ghuta German Ataque químico de Guta Spanish حملات شیمیایی غوطه Persian Massacre de la Ghouta French המתקפה הכימית בע'וטה HE Napad kemijskim oružjem na Gutu 2013. Croatian Attacco chimico di Ghūṭa Italian

Ghouta chemical attack

Ghouta chemical attack
Part of the Siege of Eastern Ghouta
Victims of the Ghouta chemical attack
LocationGhouta, Syria
Coordinates
Date21 August 2013[2]
Attack type
Chemical attack
DeathsVarious estimates:
Injured3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms in 3 hospitals supported by MSF[5]
Perpetrators Syrian government[16][17][18][note 1]
ChargesBashar and Maher al-Assad and two other Syrian senior government officials charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes[19]
LitigationFrench 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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  12. ^ "The Eighth Anniversary of the Largest Chemical Weapons Attack by the Syrian Regime against Syrian Citizens in the Two Ghoutas of Damascus, Still Without Accountability". 20 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013". whitehouse.gov. 30 August 2013. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2015 – via National Archives.
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  15. ^ a b "Bodies still being found after alleged Syria chemical attack: opposition". The Daily Star. Lebanon. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  16. ^ a b "Attacks on Ghouta: Analysis of Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria". Human Rights Watch. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2022. Based on the available evidence, Human Rights Watch finds that Syrian government forces were almost certainly responsible for the August 21 attacks.
  17. ^ a b Eastern And Western Ghouta Sarin Attack (PDF) (Report). Civil Rights Defenders et al. April 2021. Evidence collected in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, and over the last seven years, demonstrates that the Syrian government carried out the attacks.
  18. ^ "Victims of Syrian gov't chemical attacks file case in Sweden". Al Jazeera. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
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  20. ^ S.B. (21 August 2013). "Syria's war: If this isn't a red line, what is?". The Economist. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  21. ^ "Syria gas attack: death toll at 1,400 worst since Halabja". The Week. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2013.


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