A letter demanding accountability at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in regard to the intentionally false reporting of the onsite OPCW investigation of the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, on April 7, 2018, blamed falsely on the Syrian government. The letter was signed by 25 “internationally respected persons, among them OPCW’s first Director General, former OPCW inspectors and two former UN Assistant Secretaries-General.”
The letter is accompanied by a report on the well-documented writing out by the OPCW directors of all evidence gathered by their own inspectors which contradicted the conclusion that the incident was an attack by the Assad government. Those inspectors challenged the conclusions that there even was a chlorine attack (as claimed by the British-intelligence run White Helmets), that chlorine canisters had been dropped from a helicopter, and that the Syrian government was responsible for the non-event. The U.S. military and intelligence institutions had already used the false claim to convince President Donald Trump to conduct bombing raids on Syrian government locations.
Issued by the Courage Foundation on March 12, the press release states: “The purpose of the initiative to request transparency and accountability from the OPCW has four underlying reasons: 1. To restore the credibility and trust in a major international organisation and to protect its independence, 2. to protest over the deliberate redaction of evidence in the Douma case and a failure to conduct a credible and transparent investigation; 3. to express the serious concern that the incident of Douma has become yet another example of fraudulent manipulation of facts to justify political and military actions reminiscent of the earlier fabricated story about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which was used to justify a war; 4. to protect civil society in Syria and, ultimately, elsewhere from future suffering.” https://www.couragefound.org/2021/03/press-release-leading-international-voices-and-chemical-weapons-experts-call-for-accountability-and-transparency-at-the-opcw/
