Human Rights Watch has accused the Syrian Air Force of using incendiary weapons dozens of times over the past year. The alleged attacks include one in the northern province of Aleppo that killed 37 people at a school. A doctor who treated victims of that attack described what she saw.
Dr. Saleyha Ahsan: “The skin was hanging off them. At some point, as I was tending to one patient, it was difficult to work out what was skin and what was fabric, the way that it was literally just hanging. What I saw in Syria in August stands alone in terms of the cruelty, the extent of the devastation, the severity of the injuries that I saw and also the tragedy of the lack of infrastructure to deal with these kind of casualties on the ground.”