Armageddon
at Aleppo. Stephen F. Cohen
NYU,
Princeton University, EastWestAccord.com
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Armageddon
at Aleppo. Stephen F. Cohen, NYU, Princeton University,
EastWestAccord.com
“…The
bombardment of Aleppo entered a fifth consecutive day on Monday,
after 95 people were killed in the east of the city on Sunday,
according to doctors. A tally from local hospitals put the number of
wounded at 398, including 61 children.
“What
has happened over the last three days is indescribable,” said
Mohammad Abu Rajab, a doctor in one of the largest medical centres in
eastern Aleppo. “Words fail, pictures fail, everything fails.”
Abu
Rajab’s hospital received 180 dead and wounded on Sunday, and six
more dead on Monday morning.
“Imagine
the dead lying in the corridors, corpses and wounded and blood
flowing everywhere,” he said. “We are standing before inhumanity,
real massacres, extraordinary weapons whose blasts we never heard
before, never heard before ever, they make the ground shake beneath
our feet.”
In
Moscow, meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov slammed the United
States and Britain for accusing Russia of “barbarism” and war
crimes.
“We
note the overall unacceptable tone and rhetoric of the
representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States, which
can damage and harm our relations,” Peskov told reporters.
At
the security council meeting, Rycroft’s French counterpart,
François Delattre, said the use of bunker-busters and incendiaries
on urban residential areas was a war crime.
“They
must not be unpunished,” he said. “Impunity is simply not an
option in Syria.”…
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