UN: The US military is the author of the mass killings in Syria

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According to the data presented by the head of the Commission, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the bombing of areas adjacent to the 'capital' of Daesh's self-proclaimed caliphate in Russia and elsewhere, Al Raqa, caused hundreds of civilian casualties that involuntarily They lived in these areas under the yoke of jihadists.
Another member of the organization, Karen Abuzayd, said that the death toll is 300 people. Two-thirds of them are victims of air strikes against the town of Al Mansura, located in Al Raqa province.
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The US-led International Coalition's military operation in Syria and Iraq began in the summer of 2014 when Washington declared war on the Daesh jihadists.
Starting in the spring of 2017 the US military helps the Kurdish-Arab militias that launched an offensive against Al Raqa.
"US support involves the use of bombings aimed at clearing the way for ground troops.In one of the operations of this type the American aviation launched its projectiles against Al Mansura, which fell on a school in that locality.As a result, This attack claimed the lives of 200 civilians, "Gashkov writes.
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The information submitted by AbuZayd indicates that the building was used as a temporary shelter for people who had fled from Palmira.


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In addition, UN figures say the bombing near al-raqqah caused a mass exodus of the local population. Approximately 160,000 people left the territories subjected to air strikes.
"The fight against terrorism, which is an essential need, should not be at the expense of [life] of civilians, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch expressed concern about the possibility that these missiles could have caused fires causing even more casualties. Asad's government strongly rejects the bombings against Syrian territory. The Arab country continues toremind Washington that has not been allowed to conduct military operations in their territories and the US war against Daesh continues without UN mandate.

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Despite these allegations by the US military, the organization Human Rights Watch expressed concern about the possibility that these projectiles could have caused fires causing even more victims.

The Asad government strongly rejects the bombing of Syrian territory. The Arab country continues to remind Washington that it has not allowed it to carry out military operations in its territories and that the US war against Daesh continues without a UN mandate.

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The US military has so far not commented on the data submitted by the Commission. According to Pentagon estimates, over the past three years only 350 civilians have been killed as a result of US bombing of Syrian territory.

The Syrian Human Rights Network, Airwars, for its part, figures the number of deaths caused by the air attacks of the USA in about 3,800 people.

Media bombing

At the beginning of April 2017, the Western mainstream media began to place much emphasis on the attacks on civilians in the town of Jan Sheijun, allegedly carried out by troops loyal to Asad, according to Washington, which resulted in the deaths of 89 people .

"Meanwhile the information about the massacre in Al Mansura went unnoticed by the same media for a long time despite the fact that this bombing happened two weeks before the attack on Jan Sheijun," emphasizes Gashkov.

"It is possible that in case the information about the attack on Al Mansura had appeared before, the information panorama at that time would have been very different," he concluded.