Ban Ki-moon says both sides in Syrian conflict ‘have blood on their hands’

20 September 2016, 4:42 pm

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Ban Ki-moon blasts leaders who are “feeding the war machine” in Syria, violate human rights and prevent aid deliveries to starving people.

The UN chief tells leaders at the opening of the General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting that “powerful patrons” of both sides in the more than five-year Syrian conflict “have blood on their hands.”

“Present in this hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians,” he says.

Ban adds that “many groups have killed innocent civilians — none more so than the government of Syria.”

–AP