Moscow urges investigation into US military crimes in Raqqa

Russia’s Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Gennady Kuzmin has stressed that the crimes committed by the US occupation forces in Syria’s Raqqa, where dozens of civilians were killed, must be investigated,

Kuzmin made the remarks during the UN General Assembly hearings devoted to human rights in Syria.

“We have not forgotten that the US military has razed to the ground Syria’s Raqqa as a result of a barbaric military campaign it was waging together with the forces under its control. Crimes committed by the US military in the course of that unprecedentedly brutal military operation must be investigated,” he said, according to Itar Tass.

The Russian diplomat recalled that “as a result of a large-scale military operation by the US involving combat aircraft and armored vehicles dozens of Syrian civilians, including children, were killed.”

 Since its establishment in 2014 illegally , the US-led coalition, purportedly to fight ISIS in Syria, conducted hundreds of airstrikes on villages and towns in the Syrian provinces of Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and Hasakah, killing thousands of civilians, mostly children and women, and destroying the infrastructure, the vital service facilities, the houses and properties and the bridges on the Euphrates.    

Hamda Mustafa