The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday said the Syrian government is still indiscriminately bombing civilians with high explosive barrel bombs in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution.
February’s resolution demanded a halt to all attacks against civilians and indiscriminate shelling and aerial bombardment, including the use of barrel bombs, in populated areas.
“Month after month, the Security Council has sat idly by as the government defied its demands with new barrel bomb attacks on Syrian civilians,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
“Russia and China need to allow the Security Council to show the same resolve and unanimity it brought to the issue of humanitarian aid to call a halt to these deadly attacks on civilians.”
Activists said barrels bombs on Aleppo have killed more than 2,000 people in 2014.
