The Century Massacre Anniversary
Wherever you are, be advocates for truth and seekers of justice.
I will never forget that night as long as I’m alive, and I will tell the story every year
But the justice of the world dealt with the crime in a new way; it dealt in a manner that turned red lines into green traffic lights! This justice just confiscated the instrument of the crime and pardoned the criminal!
Slim Namour, Guest at a Dialogue Evening Organized by the Coordination Committee in Austria
It’s time to move forward from the process of documentation and investigation to holding accountable the violations committed by the Syrian regime against its people.
The Association’s words in the event, “We know who used the chemical weapons in Syria, what’s the next step?
We are concerned that normalizing relations with the Assad regime is regarded as a serious risk of erasing the traces of chemical crime. The Assad militia has worked to conceal the crime scenes and destroy the graves of those who were killed by chemical weapons, and they need Arab and international cover-ups to deny their crimes
36 members of his family have died in the chemical massacre in Eastern Ghouta
I saw my brother lying among a group of corpses, and my father as well. I screamed, waking the rest of the young men in the house. It was a difficult night. And at six in the morning, I received news that my entire family had died in the chemical attack. No one survived.
Nobody expected that the perpetrators would use sarin gas against the Syrian people.
The path to justice is long and has begun from the very first moment. His testimony, along with the testimonies of others, formed the basis for efforts towards achieving justice. These efforts concluded in bringing lawsuits with the French and German judiciaries concerning this use, this is only the beginning of the journey.
We were unable to breathe… due to the shelling.” Anas Al-Khawli’s testimony of the chemical night in Eastern Ghouta
The night began with warnings, which the people of Ghouta couldn’t understand or hide. The gas was everywhere, and going upstairs to the rooftops for clean air was impossible as the area was being randomly targeted by rockets after the chemical attack.
Establishing announcement of the Association of Victims of Chemical Weapons
On August 19, 2022, the establishment of the Association of Victims of Chemical Weapons (AVCW) was announced during a seminar held in Berlin in collaboration with the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. The seminar was titled “Together for the Rights of Victims and Preventing Impunity”, which was moderated by Thaer Hejazi, who […]
The Third Report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Investigation and Identification Team
On January 27, 2023, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Investigation and Identification Team
released its third report, which concluded the involvement of the Syrian regime’s air forces in the chemical weapons attack on April 7, 2018, in Douma.
The second report for the Investigation and Identification Team in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released its second report on April 12, 2021. The report concluded that the Assad regime was responsible for using chemical weapons in an airstrike that hit the city of Saraqib on the evening of February 4, 2018.