Syrian, NGO file complaint to U.N. against Russia for violating laws
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – A Syrian man and a non-governmental organization (NGO) filed on Wednesday a complaint against Russia for deliberately bombing a hospital in Idlib Governorate in northwest Syria in 2019.
The complaint accused Russia of violating international laws by deliberately bombing a hospital in the city of Kafr Nable in the southern countryside of Idlib in 2019.
It accused Russia’s Air Force of killing two civilians in a series of air strikes on Kafr Nable Surgical Hospital on May 5, 2019.
The complaint filed at the United Nations Human Rights Committee this week by the cousin of those killed and by Hand in Hand for Aid and Development, an aid group operating in the opposition-held areas in northwest Syria.
Fadi al-Dairi, director of Hand in Hand, said, “Syrians are looking to the Human Rights Committee to show us some measure of redress by acknowledging the truth of this brutal attack, and the suffering caused.”
Russian forces directly intervened in the Syrian war alongside the Syrian government forces on Sept. 30, 2015. They have two military bases in Syria – Khmeimim Airbase near the city of Latakia and another in the port of Tartus, on the Syrian coast.