{"id":158882,"date":"2019-02-18T08:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T06:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=158882"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:07:35","slug":"french-officer-us-led-intl-coalition-killed-syrian-civilians-destroyed-their-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=158882","title":{"rendered":"French officer: US-led int&#8217;l coalition killed Syrian civilians, destroyed their cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, SANA_\u00a0 New facts have been revealed about what the US-led international coalition has done of the crimes and the destruction of infrastructure in Syria under the pretext of fighting Daesh terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>French officer Colonel Francois-Regis Legrier said that the coalition&#8217;s focus had been on limiting its own risks and this had greatly increased the death toll among civilians and the levels of destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The French officer, who is involved in framework of the coalition in massacres committed by coalition against innocent Syrian civilians, talked about the scorched-earth policy followed by the coalition, stressing that this policy has led to a significant increase in the number of civilian deaths and destruction in Syrian cities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We unnecessarily prolonged the conflict and thus contributed to increasing the number of casualties in the population,&#8221; Legrier said in article published by the National Defence Review newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a Western-style liberation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Legrier added: &#8220;How many Hajins will it take to understand that we are on the wrong track?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The French army, in confirmation of fact of the &#8220;coalition&#8221; plot, declared its intention to punish the officer who exposed practices and crimes of the US-led coalition&#8217;s forces against the Syrian civilians and their cities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A punishment is being considered,&#8221; French army spokesman said in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>The article was removed from the review&#8217;s website on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gh.A.Hassoun<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, SANA_\u00a0 New facts have been revealed about what the US-led international coalition has done of the crimes and the destruction of infrastructure in Syria under the pretext of fighting Daesh terrorist organization. French officer Colonel Francois-Regis Legrier said that the coalition&#8217;s focus had been on limiting its own risks and this had greatly increased &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[1110,2417,6281,1210,19374,1855,3004],"class_list":["post-158882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-civilians","tag-coalition","tag-french","tag-killed","tag-officer","tag-syrian","tag-us-led"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}