The U.N. Helps Syria Bomb the Opposition

MESOPOTAMIA NEWS :  The subtitle is wrong. The program U.N.  only transfers #hospital coordinates to Russia which then bombs the hospitals.

A United Nations program passes on rebel coordinates to Russia. Its bombs do the rest. – FOREIGN POLICY – By Anchal Vohra – | August 19, 2019, 8:14 AM

For months, as part of its deconfliction program for the Syrian war, the United Nations has been sharing the GPS coordinates of health care facilities in rebel-held territory with the Russian government. The aim was to ensure Russia and its Syrian allies do not hit them by mistake.

The system is not working. Indeed, it seems to be achieving the opposite of its ostensible goal. During the Syrian government’s recent offensive in Idlib, as many as 46 civilian facilities were reportedly attacked. The Syrian American Medical Society, a local partner of the U.N. in Idlib, reported that at least 14 medical facilities that were attacked in Idlib were on the U.N.’s list. The Russian and the Syrian governments, in other words, knew exactly where the facilities were when they bombed them.

On July 30, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres authorized an inquiry to investigate who bombed the facilities, especially those supposedly under the international body’s protection. The organization should consider investigating whether its deconfliction program, as currently designed, serves any useful purpose at all. In the meantime, Russia and its allies will continue receiving information from the U.N. about opposition whereab

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/19/the-u-n-helps-syria-bomb-the-opposition/