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The Khan al-Assal chemical attack was a chemical attack in Khan al-Assal, Aleppo, Syria, on 19 March 2013, which according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights resulted in at least 26 fatalities including 16 government soldiers and 10 civilians, and more than 86 injuries.〔 Immediately after the incident the Syrian government and opposition accused each other of carrying out the attack, but neither side presented clear documentation.〔BBC, 19 March 2013, (Syrians trade Khan al-Assal chemical weapons claims )〕〔 The Syrian government asked the United Nations to investigate the incident, but disputes over the scope of that investigation led to lengthy delays. In the interim, the Syrian government invited Russia to send specialists to investigate the incident. Samples taken at the site led them to conclude that the attack involved the use of sarin,〔 which matched the assessment made by the United States.〔 Russia held the opposition responsible for the attack, while the US held the government responsible. UN investigators finally arrived on the ground in Syria in August (with a mandate excluding the evaluation of culpability for the chemical weapons attacks〔), but their arrival coincided with the much larger-scale 2013 Ghouta attacks which took place on 21 August, pushing the Khan al-Assal investigation "onto the backburner" according to a UN spokesman.〔 The UN report,〔 which was completed on 12 December, found "likely use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal" and assessed that organophosphate poisoning was the cause of the "mass intoxication". A February 2014 report from the UN Human Rights Council stated that the chemical agents used in the Khan-Al-Assal attack bore the "same unique hallmarks" as those used in the 2013 Ghouta attacks. The UN report also indicated that the perpetrators of the Al-Ghouta attack "likely had access to the chemical weapons stockpile of the Syrian military". In neither incident, however, was the commission’s "evidentiary threshold" met in regards to identifying the perpetrators of the chemical attacks.〔U.N report A-HRC-25-65 () Reuters, 5 March 2014 ()〕 ==Background== The attack took place in Khan al-Asal, in the context of the Syrian civil war, in the Battle of Aleppo's southwestern front. Khan al-Asal is a village about west-southwest of the center of Aleppo. At the time of the chemical attack on 19 March, government forces held the village and the nearby Syrian Army Base. Rebel forces had been shelling the village from the surrounding areas for weeks, and had gained control of the police academy located southwest of Khan al-Asal.〔〔http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/19/syria-chemical-weapons-second-attack-damascus〕 The rebel forces had taken control of the police academy at the conclusion of a fierce eight day battle that concluded on 3 March, when the last government defenders of the police academy were killed. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), at least 120 government soldiers/policemen and 80 rebels were killed during the battle.〔http://www.todayszaman.com/news-308777-report-syrian-opposition-fighters-kill-115-policemen.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khan al-Assal chemical attack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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