BBC - Israel mengatakan bukti foto menunjukkan senjata kimia digunakan dalam serangan
NEW YORK, KOMPAS.com - Investigator masalah hak asasai manusia PBB, Carla del Ponte mengatakan pasukan pemberontak Suriah telah menggunakan gas sarin dalam konflik bersenjata di negeri itu. "Berdasarkan sejumlah kesaksian yang kami kumpulkan, pasukan pemberontak menggunakan senjata kini, dalam hal ini gas sarin," kata Del Ponte dalam wawancara dengan Radio Swiss, Minggu (5/5/2013) malam.
Namun, Del Ponte -mantan jaksa kejahatan perang- menegaskan komisi penyelidikan PBB untuk Suriah, yang dia adalah anggotanya, masih jauh dari selesai.
Sementara itu, pemerintah Turki melakukan tes darah terhadap para pengungsi Suriah untuk memastikan apakah mereka adalah korban dari senjata kimia. "Sejumlah sampel sudah diambil dari orang-orang yang terluka di Suriah yang telah dikirim ke Turki," ujar sumber pemerintah Turki yang tidak ingin disebutkan namanya.
Sebelumnya, negara-negara Barat memprihatinkan kemungkinan penggunaan senjata kimia dalam konflik Suriah yang tak kunjung reda dan malah semakin meningkat itu. Bahkan, Presiden AS Barack Obama mengatakan, jika penggunaan senjata kimia itu memang terbukti, maka Amerika Serikat akan menimbang kembali berbagai opsi yang tersedia terkait keterlibatan negeri itu di dalam konflik yang sudah berlangsung dua tahun tersebut.
Spoiler for U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator:
(Reuters) - U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday. The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.
"Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated," Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television. "This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities," she added, speaking in Italian.
Del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney-general who also served as prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, gave no details as to when or where sarin may have been used. The Geneva-based inquiry into war crimes and other human rights violations is separate from an investigation of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria instigated by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which has since stalled.
President Bashar al-Assad's government and the rebels accuse each another of carrying out three chemical weapon attacks, one near Aleppo and another near Damascus, both in March, and another in Homs in December. The civil war began with anti-government protests in March 2011. The conflict has now claimed an estimated 70,000 lives and forced 1.2 million Syrian refugees to flee.
The United States has said it has "varying degrees of confidence" that sarin has been used by Syria's government on its people. President Barack Obama last year declared that the use or deployment of chemical weapons by Assad would cross a "red line".
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer)
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makin seru dah di suriah kini.... pihak PBB sdh berbicara, walopun hsl penyelidikan msh bersifat sementara.... slain itu, jg msh blm jelas.... faksi mana yg diduga melakukan serangan gas sarin tsb....
gak heran, pemerintah amrik msh bersikap ragu2 sampe skrg, thd isu penggunaan senjata kimia dlm perang sipil di suriah sono....
Geneva, 6 May 2013 -- The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict. As a result, the Commission is not in a position to further comment on the allegations at this time.
PBB menarik kembali kesimpulan Carla sebelumnya....
Sampai saat ini PBB tidak punya akses untuk memeriksa di wilayah Suriah..
Hasil yang ada sementara ini adalah hasil wawancara dari para pengungsi (entah masih di wilayah Suriah ato bukan)....
dmikian sekilas info
edit : eaaahhhh, keduluan......
eh trnyata, PBB mmg menemukan adanya serangan gas sarin di suriah, tp mrk blm bs menyimpulkan siapa sbnr nya yg menggunakan senjata kimia tsb....