Bombing in Syria is still going on

topic:	Humans
located:	Syria
editor:	Ama Lorenz

On August 21, 2013, the government of Bashar al-Assad used chemical bombs against Syrian civilians in Ghouta. Several opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus, Syria, were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin and hundreds to thousands of men, women and children died.This was the worst chemical attack for a quarter of a century, since the Halabja killings by Saddam Hussein in 1988.

After Ghouta, the world was outraged and finally paid attention to what was happening in Syria. What followed were international assessments, an UN investigation and US president

Obama said a red line had been crossed. But the international political situation has changed and the international community of states swayed to and fro whether or not to use Bashar al-Assad’s government in the fight against terrorism. And so, after two years after the killing in the Ghouta the chemical attacks against Syrian civilians continue today. The barrel bombs packed with chlorine and explosives, routinely used on Syrian neighborhoods, seem to be ignored by the international community, also one of the reasons for many Syrians to flee their country but overshadowed by the European refugee discussion. This week, over 100 civilians were killed and 500 were injured in aerial attacks on a market in Douma. Yet this time the world is completely silent.

To break this silence, organisations as the Iraqi-German association WADI and Planet Syria, a wide network that includes over a hundred Syrian civil society groups, are asking people around the world to join or organise a #ClearTheSky action to show their support for clearing Syrian skies of bombs. They exclaim the Global Day of Action on the Second Anniversary of the Chemical Attacks on Ghouta. May their voices be heard and lead to action.

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