In the Syrian district of East Guta near Damascus, a ceremony was held in memory of the victims of a chemical attack committed by the ousted regime of Bashar al -Assad on August 21, 2013. This year marks the 12th anniversary of the tragedy.
in the land quarter, where an attack was carried out at 02:30 local time, prayers sounded from the mosques on the night of August 21, 2025, fireworks were launched. Then the locals gathered on the land of the land, demanding to hold guilty of the guilty of the crime.
speaking at the event, a resident of the land Muhammad Abu Khatam said that he had lost many relatives that day.
“Allah gave us the opportunity to remember the anniversary of the chemical massacre on his native land. Now in mosques there are excretion of the almighty. Exactly 12 years. At the same time, there was an attack in which about 1,500 people died, friends, relatives, ”he said, not holding back tears.
Abu Hatem noted that he hopes to hear the news that the organizers of the attack, especially Bashar Assad, were detained and punished. Guta
August 21, 2013 The now overthrown Assad regime used chemical weapons against the civilian population in the eastern guta, as a result of which more than 1400 people were killed.
This imprisonment of women and children, and thousands of people suffered from the effects of poisonous substances.
later, in 2018, the eastern gutes became eastern gut The object of the most severe siege by government troops that used all types of weapons. After forced agreements with Russia and the Assad regime, the opposition forces were forced to leave the region.
According to the Syrian human rights network, since the beginning of the Civil War, the Assad regime has held 217 chemical attacks in the territories under the control of the opposition.