Satu imej edaran yang
dikeluarkan oleh pembangkang Syria Shaam News Network pada 17 Ogos 2013
menunjukkan banyak rosak bangunan di Zamalka, pinggir bandar ibu negara Damsyik
Syria. (AFP Photo) (A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam
News Network on August 17, 2013 shows heavily damaged buildings in Zamalka, a
suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. AFP Photo (think IN pictures
@1WORLDCommunity)
MaliaJYy – Pembangkang
Syria janji untuk memastikan keselamatan pemeriksa PBB di kawasan-kawasan yang
dikuasai pemberontak. Pembangkang Syria berkata mereka akan memastikan
keselamatan kimia senjata PBB pakar kerana mereka melalui kawasan yang dikuasai
pemberontak, sambil menambah bahawa mereka yang berjaya tiba di tapak serangan
gas yang dikatakan berhampiran Damsyik dalam masa 48 jam adalah ‘Kritikal’.
“Kami akan memastikan
keselamatan pasukan PBB. . . Ia adalah penting bahawa orang-orang pemeriksa
sampai ke sana dalam tempoh 48 jam, “Khaled Saleh, jurucakap pembangkang, pada
sidang akhbar di Istanbul.
Pemeriksa PBB meminta akses ke
Damsyik pinggir bandar “tanpa kelewatan” pada hari Khamis untuk menyiasat
dakwaan penggunaan senjata kimia dalam serangan di negara ini. Kenyataan itu
dibuat sehari selepas serangan gas dilaporkan oleh aktivis pembangkang di ibu
membunuh mana-mana antara ‘puluhan’ ke ‘1, 300, menurut laporan yang
bercanggah.
Kerajaan Syria berkata pada
hari Khamis bahawa ia telah bersedia untuk melibatkan diri dalam kerjasama “Maksimum”
dengan pakar-pakar PBB, menurut Kementerian Luar Rusia. Pasukan penyiasatan PBB
memasuki negara ini pada Ahad lepas. 3 minggu lalu satu perjanjian telah
dicapai dengan kerajaan Presiden Syria Bashar Assad, mengenai 3 lokasi yang
berbeza yang telah diperiksa oleh misi.
Sekitar 13 laporan yang berbeza
penggunaan senjata kimia di Syria didakwa telah dibuat ke PBB, dan laman yang
sedang diperiksa untuk menentukan pihak yang bertanggung jawab dalam serangan
yang didakwa.
Rusia disediakan PBB dengan
analisis sampel yang diambil dari barat Aleppo di Khan Al ‘Assal. Daerah ini
merupakan tapak serangan senjata kimia Mac 2013 apabila 30 orang mati. Penemuan
Rusia setakat ini telah menunjukkan bahawa pemberontak di belakang kejadian
itu.
Syrian opposition promises to
ensure UN inspectors' safety in rebel-controlled areas. The Syrian opposition
said they will ensure the safety of UN chemical weapons experts as they pass
through rebel-controlled areas, adding that their successful arrival at the
site of an alleged gas attack near Damascus within 48 hours was ‘critical.’
“We will ensure the safety of
the U.N. team ... It is critical that those inspectors get there within 48
hours,” Khaled Saleh, spokesman for the opposition, told a news conference in
Istanbul.
The UN inspectors requested
access to Damascus suburbs “without delays” on Thursday in order to investigate
the alleged use of chemical weapons in attacks in the country. The statement was made the day after a gas
attack was reported by opposition activists in the capital killing anywhere
between ‘dozens’ to ‘1,300’, according to conflicting reports.
The Syrian government said on
Thursday that it was ready to engage in “maximum” cooperation with UN experts,
according to Russia’s foreign ministry.
The UN investigative team entered the country last Sunday. Three weeks
ago an agreement was reached with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government
regarding the three different locations that were to be examined by the
mission.
Around 13 different reports of
alleged chemical weapons usage in Syria have been made to the UN, and the sites
are being examined in order to determine the responsible parties in the alleged
attacks.
Russia provided the UN with an
analysis of samples taken from western Aleppo in Khan al-Assal. The district
was the site of a chemical weapons attack in March 2013 when 30 people
died. Russia’s findings so far have
indicated that rebels were behind the incident.
Seorang budak lelaki Syria
berjalan di atas runtuhan bangunan yang musnah di bandar Syria utara Aleppo (A
Syrian boy walks on the rubble of destroyed buildings in the northern Syrian
city of Aleppo. AFP Photo (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Amerika Syarikat telah
mengisytiharkan bahawa mereka mempunyai data mereka sendiri mencadangkan
tentera kerajaan yang bertanggungjawab untuk serangan ini. Walau bagaimanapun,
Paulo Pinheiro, pengerusi suruhanjaya siasatan PBB ke dalam pencabulan hak
asasi di Syria, berkata rekod Amerika Syarikat tidak memenuhi standard yang
dikehendaki oleh PBB.
Setiausaha Agung PBB Ban
Ki-moon berkata pada Jumaat bahawa akan ada “akibat yang serius” jika laporan
penggunaan senjata kimia berubah menjadi benar. “Mana-mana penggunaan senjata
kimia di mana sahaja, oleh sesiapa sahaja, di bawah mana-mana keadaan, akan
melanggar undang-undang antarabangsa,” kata Ban pada acara yang dijadualkan di
Korea Selatan Ibu negara Seoul pada hari Jumaat.
“Apa-apa jenayah terhadap
kemanusiaan harus menyebabkan akibat yang serius untuk pelaku,” katanya.
Jurucakap Ban memberitahu Reuters pada hari Jumaat bahawa dia mahu “menyeluruh,
siasatan adil dan segera” ke dalam serangan gas kimia yang dikatakan.
Presiden Amerika Syarikat,
Barack Obama menyatakan pada hari Jumaat bahawa negara ini perlu bunga dengan
berhati-hati dalam tindak balas kepada serangan jelas yang paling baru-baru
ini, sebagai pembantu beliau mencari lebih kemungkinan tindakan ketenteraan
terhadap kerajaan Syria. Dalam temu bual itu, yang pertama sejak serangan pada
Rabu, beliau dipanggil laporan yang keluar dari negara “sangat bermasalah” dan “peristiwa
besar yang membimbangkan.”
Moscow telah berterusan untuk
memantau peristiwa sekitar serangan, jurucakap yang dikatakan Kementerian Luar
Rusia, Aleksandr Lukashevich, berkata dalam satu kenyataan pada Jumaat.
“Kami mendapat lebih banyak
bukti baru bahawa ini perbuatan jenayah adalah bersifat provokatif,” tegas
beliau. “Secara khususnya, terdapat laporan yang diedarkan di Internet yang
bahan-bahan kejadian dan tuduhan terhadap tentera kerajaan telah diberikan untuk
beberapa jam sebelum yang dipanggil serangan. Oleh itu, ia adalah satu tindakan
yang dirancang.”
The US has declared that they
have their own data suggesting government forces were responsible for the
attack. However, Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN commission’s inquiry into
rights violations in Syria, said US records did not meet the standards required
by the UN.
UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon said on Friday that there will be “serious consequences” if the reports
of chemical weapons usage turn out to be true.
“Any use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anybody, under any
circumstances, would violate international law,” Ban said at a scheduled event
in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Friday.
“Such a crime against humanity
should result in serious consequences for the perpetrator,” he added. A
spokesperson for Ban told Reuters on Friday that he wants a “thorough,
impartial and prompt investigation” into the alleged chemical gas attack.
US President Barack Obama
stated on Friday that the country should tread with caution in response to the
most recent apparent attack, as his aides mulled over the prospect of military
action against Syria’s government. In the interview, which was his first since
Wednesday’s strike, he called the reports coming out of the country “very
troublesome” and a “big event of grave concern.”
Moscow has been continuing to
monitor events surrounding the alleged attack, Russian Foreign Ministry
spokesman, Aleksandr Lukashevich, said in a statement on Friday.
“We’re getting more new
evidence that this criminal act was of a provocative nature,” he stressed. “In
particular, there are reports circulating on the Internet that the materials of
the incident and accusations against government troops had been posted for
several hours before the so-called attack. Thus, it was a pre-planned action.”
