US names Syrian generals linked to attacks on civilians

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US names Syrian generals linked to attacks on civilians
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By AFP     1 hour ago in World

The United States on Monday named a dozen Syrian generals and officers accused of leading attacks on civilian targets in the five-year war and warned they would one day face justice.

US Ambassador Samantha Power said the military commanders were involved in "killing and injuring civilians" with assaults on schools, hospitals and homes since the outbreak of the war in 2011.

"The United States will not let those who have commanded units involved in these actions hide anonymously behind the facade of the Assad regime," Power told the Security Council.

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[TomSea]

It's a hard call.

I was reading on leaders accused of genocide, the way Afghanistan was fought by the Russians, many civilians died so the Soviet Union was on that list with Brezhnev.  But some say the same thing went on in World War II with the bombing of Dresden, Tokyo, other cities.