Syria: ‘Napalm-style’ attack on school reported

[The Straight Story]

FOOTAGE has emerged of a horrific incident in northern Syria which reportedly shows the aftermath of an incendiary bomb being dropped on a school playground, leaving scores of children with napalm-like burns over their bodies.

Witnesses told a team from the BBC’s Panorama programme that a fighter jet had repeatedly flown overhead, as if searching for a target, before dropping the bomb.

The attack killed more than 10 pupils and left many more seriously injured, the BBC said.

Footage showed adults and children, their clothes burned from their bodies, being treated on the floor of a basic hospital. Many had burns to more than 50% of their bodies, it was claimed.

Many were badly burned, shaking uncontrollably and left caked in a white substance, injuries which the BBC said suggested the bomb contained something like napalm or thermite.

The headmaster told reporters: “This was the most horrific thing. We have seen images on TV, we have heard many stories, but we have never seen anything like this before.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/syria-napalm-style-attack-on-school-reported-1-3067065

[darkangel218]

1. Wtf...

If this is true, I will no longer be against an attack.

Most likely is only propaganda though.

[The Straight Story]

2. Here is the article from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-23892594

The video contains disturbing images.

[darkangel218]

4. Jesus...

[Little Star]

13. I don't get......

(I already asked darkangel218 this question because I saw her OP before I saw yours. No answer back yet), why are there only boys in that school? Is that just normal in Syria?

[The Straight Story]

15. Not sure, but here is one possible reason:

Syrian children ‘interrogated in their own schools’, Human Rights Watch warns

Government troops in Syria are using schools as interrogation centres for students, refugees escaping the country’s civil war have claimed.

The regime has carried out at least two aerial attacks on schools in the north of the country, while pupils reported tanks entering school grounds, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

The New York-based group said both the army and rebels had used schools as bases, barracks and sniper posts.

Government forces have also fired upon schools not used for any military purpose, HRW claimed in a 33-page report based on 70 interviews, including 16 students and teachers, with people who fled the fighting.

...

One in five schools are no longer open in Syria, with thousands destroyed, damaged or used as shelter for victims of the conflict, according to Unicef, the UN’s children’s agency.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/06/syrian-children-interrogated-in-their-own-schools-human-rights-watch-warns-3830583/

If they were taken there as part of something like that they could be broken up by sexes. Could also be how schools are there in general (since mostly Islamic in that area that would be the most likely reason). Example:


Gender segregation now mandatory in Gaza schools
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/womens-group-slams-gaza-law-gender-segregation

[applegrove]

3. Vibes to those kids.

[BainsBane]

5. This has to be Assad

the rebels don't have fighter planes.

[BillyRibs]

11. Drink the kool aid!

[BainsBane]

16. Kool Aid?

Really? Why don't you tell me how the rebels acquired fighter planes and how they manage to keep an airport where the Syrian government hasn't bombed it?

[FreeState]

6. Wow, truly awful n/t

[joshcryer]

7. LBN thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014580456

[davidpdx]

8. Keep in mind this is separate from the chemical weapon attacks

Which videos also have been posted of as well.

[hrmjustin]

9. Monsters! Damn them!

Whoever did this needs to pay dearly for this.

[eomer]

12. We have done this, time and again.

I agree with you, but let's start the paying for it over here first and work outward from there.

[arely staircase]

14. This can't possibly be true.

Bush lied about Iraq, therefore nothing bad that is reported about Assad can possibly be true. At least that seems to be the logic around these parts.

[BainsBane]

17. Exactly

[Bluenorthwest]

18. It can be as true as the 400 or 500 thousand pounds of Naplam the US has dropped in my lifetime

Perspective. That does not count the napalm dropped on Japanese cities during WW2.

[arely staircase]

19. yeah, US military intervention around the world has done some horrible and admirible things

getting involved in Syria has the potential for either/both. I would say that right up there with Vietnam in Iraq was the US invasion of Mexico (the war nobody ever talks about, except my relatives still in Mexico). Destroying the Nazi War machine was a good thing. And the Japanese Imperial one too. But I can't defend the firebombing of Tokyo or Dresden. The world is a sad place at times.