Ghouta chemical attack
| Ghouta chemical attack | |
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| Part of the siege of Eastern Ghouta | |
Victims of the Ghouta chemical attack | |
| Location | Ghouta, Syria |
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| Date | 21 August 2013 |
Attack type | Chemical attack |
| Deaths | 281–1,729 killed (various estimates) |
| Injured | 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms in 3 hospitals supported by MSF |
| Perpetrators | Syrian Arab Republic |
| Charges | Bashar and Maher al-Assad and two other Syrian senior government officials charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes |
| Litigation | French arrest warrants for the Assad brothers and the two other officials |
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The Ghouta chemical attack was a chemical attack carried out by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the early hours of 21 August 2013 in Ghouta, Syria during the Syrian civil war. Two opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin. Estimates of the death toll range from at least 281 people to 1,729. The attack was the deadliest use of chemical weapons since the Iran–Iraq War.
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