Ben Cardin: ‘Well Past Time Mr. Assad Is Indicted for His War Crimes’
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CARDIN: "Well this is just the latest of the atrocities committed by the Assad regime with the help of Mr. Putin and Russia. The International Community must act. First and foremost the United States must make it clear that our policy is that Mr. Assad has to leave Syria. It’s not up to the Syrian people. Secondly, we need to act on establishing a war crimes tribunal and hold Mr. Assad accountable for his war crimes and others. Mr. Putin needs to be looked at for what Russia complicity has been in these attacks. It’s not just this latest attack with using chemical weapons which just violates the chemical weapons convention, it violates international humanitarian norms. It’s a war crime, but they’ve been doing barrel bombing, they’ve been -- been targeting hospitals. It is well past time that Mr. Assad is indicted for his war crimes."
