Bombing Civilians – The Impact of Military Use of Air Space

by Dr. Ruwantissa Abeyratne
( May 7, 2015, Montreal, Sri Lanka Guardian) CNN recently reported a claim by Amnesty International that  Syrian forces have dropped barrel bombs on Aleppo schools, hospitals, mosques and market and that atrocities by government forces and opposition groups have made life for civilians “increasingly unbearable”. The report goes on to say that barrel bombs – oil drums filled with explosives and shrapnel and dropped by aircraft — killed more than 3,000 civilians in Aleppo governorate last year.

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