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CHEMICAL WEAPONS INSPECTORS STILL HAVEN’T ACCESSED DOUMA

By Alexa Liautaud

April 18, 2018, 3:11pm

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A team of international chemical weapons inspectors sent to investigate the
suspected attack in Syria on April 7 was blocked from accessing the site after
its U.N. security team came under fire, OPCW officials said Wednesday.



“[T]he team came under small-arms fire and an explosive was detonated,” OPCW’s
Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu said in a statement Wednesday.


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Wednesday’s run-in with hostile gunfire is the latest obstacle the nine-person
team has confronted since deploying to the war-torn country on Saturday.




Russia and Syria have said inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons were welcome to visit Douma, the site of the suspected
attack by Bashar Assad’s forces. But 11 days on, the international investigation
remains stalled, and experts worry critical evidence is being lost with each
passing day.

Western diplomats have accused Russia and Syria of intentionally blocking the
inspectors, and have expressed fears that pro-government forces may have already
destroyed evidence.


“It is our concern that they may have tampered with it with the intent of
thwarting the efforts of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission to conduct an effective
investigation,” Kenneth Ward, the U.S. ambassador to the OPCW, told an executive
council meeting Monday.




U.N. security personnel were not injured in the attack, but they were forced to
return to Damascus. They are now reviewing “the security situation” with Syrian
and Russia authorities, OPCW officials said, but the next visit remains up in
the air.

“At present, we do not know when the fact-finding mission team can be deployed
to Douma,” Uzumcu added.

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that




Human rights groups have repeatedly called for the parties to allow inspectors
to access the sites, saying the more time passes the more difficult it will be
to hold the regime accountable.


“The OPCW team must be granted full and unfettered access to the site in Douma
without further delay,” Sherine Tadros, the head of Amnesty International’s UN
Office, said in a statement Monday.

“Their investigation is crucial in uncovering the exact circumstances behind the
appalling images that united the world in horror this month. Every day that
passes without access makes it harder for them to collect and analyse vital
evidence.”




READ: Russia keeps changing its story on the chemical attack in Syria

Russia had repeatedly denied the existence of chemical weapons in Syria.
Instead, the Kremlin has offered a bevy of complicated narratives to explain
away the suspected chemical attack, recently accusing the UK government and
Syrian medical group the White Helmets of staging a “false flag” operation to
spur on international action. But on Tuesday, Moscow changed its story again,
and admitted it had indeed found chemical weapons — that belonged to a rebel
group.

Cover image: In this Monday, April 16, 2018 photo, man walks just meters away
from where the alleged chemical weapons attack occurred in the town of Douma,
the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. (AP
Photo/Hassan Ammar)






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