"Saddam Hussein...brutally used chemical weapons against his own people. His goals were to systematically terrorize and exterminate the Kurdish population in northern Iraq, to silence his critics, and to test the effectiveness of his chemical and biological weapons. Hussein launched chemical attacks against 40 Kurdish villages and thousands of innocent civilians in 1987-88, using them as testing grounds. The worst of these attacks devastated the city of Halabja on March 16, 1988. " |
"The Syrian army holds the terrorist groups and those supporting them responsible for the use of chemical and poisonous material and for the careless wasting of innocent civilians' lives to achieve their despicable goals and agendas."
-Statement by the Syrian government
"The symptoms were pale skin, sweating, narrow or pin-eye pupils, very intense respiratory detachments. Those symptoms match the usage of sarin."
-anonymous Syrian doctor, 2017
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"I believe this horrible memory will stay with me for the rest of my life."
-Dr. Fares al-Jundi as he treats victims of nerve gas, 2017
"So, in theory, all of us agree on the core principle at stake today: no country can be allowed to use chemical weapons with impunity,"Now that we have established what we all agree on, let's ask ourselves what we should be condemning here today.
-Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2018