Report suggests Russia, Syria deliberately targeted civilian areas of Aleppo

Source: CNN

"The biggest revelation of this report is not necessarily that these attacks were happening, but the scale at which they were happening," Eliot Higgins, a senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, told CNN.

The report, titled "Breaking Aleppo," comes against a backdrop of dramatic political change in the United States, with President Donald Trump signaling the possibility for increased cooperation with Moscow in Syria...


...The Russian government has categorically rejected allegations that its forces targeted hospitals, while Assad has previously said that deliberately bombing medical facilities would amount to a war crime.
But Higgins, who carried out much of the analysis for the report, calls the attacks "undeniable."

"It's important that these attacks are recognized and that there is some sort of response," Higgins, a British-based researcher who founded the social sleuthing website bellingcat.com, said. "We're implicitly giving a green light to other countries, saying that it's OK to indiscriminately bomb civilian populations and hospitals."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/middleeast/syria-russia-aleppo-civilian-areas

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1. I told folks this was going on back when the political left was wringing their hands over the USAF incident with the MSF facility and wanting to drag Obama before a war crimes tribunal, so don't act shocked...

2. I humbly await comment from Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and her defenders...

3. I humbly await comment from Glenn Fucking Greenwald and the rest of his Intercept dudebros...