Three years ago today, the Syrian military attacked multiple locations near Damascus with munitions filled with sarin nerve agent. A conservative estimate is that 1,400 people died during the early-morning attacks or afterwards from their injuries.
A child from the area recalls the day with a message to the international community: “Shame all these people died. Nothing remains.”
Syrian kids who witnessed Assad's #Sarin attack & lost family tell their story. Haunting words #Ghouta pic.twitter.com/g7x0QRE2Oi
— Nour Bakr (@nour_bakr) August 21, 2016
Another talks of the loss of his father and others — “We just keep seeing people falling like tree leaves to the ground” — and says, “May God never forgive [Assad] since many people were killed”:
"We just kept seeing people falling like tree leaves to the ground" eyewitness to #Assad #sarin massacre on #Ghouta pic.twitter.com/EjiAIg5PJ2
— Nour Bakr (@nour_bakr) August 21, 2016
And another concludes his recollection, “After three years of chemical attacks, we remember our friends”:
“Foam was coming out of their mouths…” Horrifying account of 2013 #Ghouta chemical attack. #StopTheBombs #Syria pic.twitter.com/MrP8mzksL9
— Syrian Coalition (@SyrCoalition) August 21, 2016
