New massacre in Khan al-Assal Kills 123. Many are still Reported Missing. Five months after a chemical weapons attack on 5 March, in the Khan al-Assal district of Aleppo, killed 25 and injured more than 110, a new massacre was carried out in Khan al-Assal yesterday.

The attack has been carried out by the so-called Ansar al-Khalifa Brigade. The insurgents have partially tried to cover-up the evidence by mutilating many of the victims bodies before dumping them into mass graves. Further attempts to cover-up the evidence were made by attempting to incinerate many of the bodies.

The new massacre followed continuous Western silence and omissions about the fact that intelligence reports had warned about a renewed military campaign by the foreign-backed opposition, in which the opposition would use large scale chemical weapons use at pretext for calls for a no-fly-zone, humanitarian corridors and a foreign military intervention.

Parties and Organizations in Syria Condemn Massacre. The Head of the Syrian Human Rights Network, Ahmad Khazem, called the massacre and the attempt to cover-up evidence by trying to incinerate the victims bodies in mass graves a “blatant violation of the UN Convention against Torture and a Crime against Humanity”.

Khazem added, that this crime also constitutes a flagrant violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1373 and article 25 of the Rome Statute, both of which are pertaining the prevention of providing material and logistic support to armed terrorist groups.

The Head of the Syrian Human Rights Network added, that this support had continuously been provided for the terrorists by the governments of Turkey and the Gulf States, with Saudi Arabia topping the list of state-sponsors of terrorism in Syria.

The Head of the Syrian Syndicate of Lawyers, Nizar Skeif, demanded that an urgent letter about this massacre be sent to the UN Security Council, so that the Security Council refers the backers of the massacre to the International Criminal Court.

A spokesperson for the President of the Popular Front for Change and Liberation, Adel Nei´seh, condemned the massacre and the calls and efforts to supply the terrorists with sophisticated weapons from the Gulf Sates. Nei´she said: "Those efforts have caused the Syrians to fall victim to criminals whose heads are filled with devilish fatwas".


Also the Head of the National Initiative for Syrian Kurds, Omar Aussi, condemned the massacre in Khan al-Assal, saying that the massacre had been committed by the terrorists who aim at escalating the situation.

With reference to the positive development that the UN team had accepted Syria´s invitation, Aussi denounced the perpetrators, describing the massacre as ” a step they usually resort to before any chance for a political solution”.