Russia: Broken Promises for Investigations

(Beirut) - The Russian government appears to be breaking its promises to investigate civilian casualties from airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. In a letter sent to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on November 22, 2016, Human Rights Watch detailed 16 Syrian-Russian aerial attacks that appear to have deliberately or indiscriminately hit civilians and civilian infrastructure including bakeries, markets, and humanitarian objects between September 30, 2015 and September 19, 2016. The ...