What the article below is saying is that France has found proof that sarin has been used during the civil war in Syria that is going on right now.
Do you think the US and European countries will intervene? Will they go to war?
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France says tests from Syria show sarin use
Foreign minister says examination of samples make it certain nerve agent has been used in Syria on several occasions.
France says it is certain that the nerve agent sarin has been used in Syria on several occasions following tests it has carried out on samples recovered from the country.
"These tests show the presence of sarin in various samples in our possession," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the test results had been handed to the United Nations.
Fabius did not give any details of where or by whom the sarin had been used.
The Syrian regime and the opposition have traded accusations that the other side have used chemical weapons during the two-year-long conflict.
France has been testing samples of suspected chemical weapon elements for several weeks, including some smuggled out by reporters from the French daily Le Monde.
"It would be unacceptable that those guilty of these crimes remain unpunished," Fabius said, without specifying whether Paris was able to deduct who had used the gas.
Use of chemical weapons is illegal under international law.
The statement came as UN investigators said there was mounting evidence that both sides have committed massacres, engaged in torture and used chemical weapons.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said that military and government leaders must be held accountable for implementing a "concerted policy" of human rights violations.
"War crimes and crimes against humanity have become a daily reality in Syria where the harrowing accounts of victims have seared themselves on our conscience," its report said.
Investigators said they had "reasonable grounds" to believe that limited amounts of chemical weapons had been used in Syria.
In their latest report based on interviews with victims, medical staff and other witnesses, they said they had received allegations that Syrian government forces and rebels had used the banned weapons, but that most testimony related to their use by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
The inquiry said conclusive findings could be reached only after testing samples taken directly from victims or the site of the alleged attacks. It called on Damascus to allow a team of experts into the country.
Cute how they ignore the UN claim that rebels used chemical weapons and instead try to make up their own crap. I'm so done with this situation and the adamant attitude of the West by portraying Assad as a ruthless dictator when the rebels aren't much better (and the fact that they're a bunch of foreign jihadists that don't represent Syrian people e.g. me) I'm not an Assad apologist but I do stand for the truth and as a Syrian I feel like my country (one of the oldest in the world!) is falling apart.
Erm, aren't chemical weapons used by all countries?
Even if they do it doesn't make it right Do you know what this kind of weapon can do? Imagine walking in the street and suddenly a plane passes and drops something, the street fills up with smoke and suddenly you're coughing blood and contorting in agony, and everyone in the surrounding area is dead in five minutes.
To use chemical weapons like sarin is a crime against humanity. But I personally dont think US should/ can openly intervene with military action in Syria without provoking much bigger conflict with Iran and Russia, or making Syria the battlefield of military superpowers.
Do you know what this kind of weapon can do? Imagine walking in the street and suddenly a plane passes and drops something, the street fills up with smoke and suddenly you're coughing blood and contorting in agony, and everyone in the surrounding area is dead in five minutes.