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🗓️ 2 June 2022
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In 2013, more than a thousand people are thought to have died in a chemical weapons attack on a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus called Ghouta. It was the single deadliest attack of the Syrian civil war and the UN later confirmed that the nerve agent Sarin had been used. Louise Hidalgo speaks to Angela Kane, the former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. Her team of chemical weapons inspectors reached the site in Ghouta just days after the attack.
PHOTO: A UN inspector at work in Ghouta in August 2013 (AFP/Getty Images)
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0:38.0 | Today we're going back to 2013 and a chemical weapons attack on suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus |
0:45.4 | in which over a thousand people are believed to have died. It was one of the |
0:49.4 | single deadliest attacks of Syria's civil war and the UN later confirmed the chemical |
0:54.6 | used was the nerve agent sarin. I've been speaking to the UN disarmament chief |
0:59.3 | whose team of weapons inspectors reached the site just days after the attack. |
1:04.0 | The attack came in the early hours of the 21st of August 2013. |
1:15.0 | It was terrifying, this man told the BBC. |
1:20.0 | We'd never seen anything like it. |
1:22.0 | He lost 23 members of his family, 12 of them children. |
1:26.8 | The internet is awash with videos of carnage which the BBC can't verify. |
1:31.8 | The videos show people who are dead, children having convulsions, a large |
1:37.5 | field hospital are washed with water because they're spraying down a large number of |
1:41.8 | victims, presumably presumably an attempt to |
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