...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems...body reconvenes this week in The Hague, Netherlands, data gathered by the Berlin-based Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) presents the scale of chemical weapon abuses in Syria, finding that Bashir al-Assad’s Syrian regime perpetrated the overwhelming majority of crimes.
The twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP) began on Monday, with representatives joining from the 193 member states committed to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), formed in order to oversee compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which prohibits the development, possession and use of chemical weapons.