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Syria crisis: Air strikes on hospitals

Published: 16 February 2016

"Rescuers wearing hard hats searched through rubble for survivors in northern Syria Monday after airstrikes hit two hospitals and a school building. The attacks killed at least 22 people, according to reports. Eight others are missing and presumed dead." (Source: CNN)

Frédéric Mégret, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University

"Since the beginning of the conflict, more than 300 hospitals have been directly targeted. It seems that Russian presence in the region gives rise to more numerous attacks. We can probably talk about war crimes."
-Frédéric Mégret

frederic.megret [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

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