Syrian Military, Not Rebels, Severed Damascus Water Supply, U.N. Finds - The New York Times
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Syrian military airstrikes on rebels were responsible for severing water supplies to 5.5 million people in the Damascus region for weeks starting last December, the United Nations said on Tuesday, rebutting government claims that insurgents were to blame.
In a bombing campaign to drive rebel forces from the Barada Valley north of Damascus, Syrian air force jets launched multiple strikes on their positions around the al-Feijeh spring, which supplied water to the capital, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry monitoring the conflict in Syria said in a report.
Retour sur une question dont on avait beaucoup parlé à l’époque... J’ai toujours du mal à comprendre quel aurait pu être l’intérêt du gouvernement syrien à agir ainsi. Mais si l’ONU a fait son enquête...