Jerusalem, May 6 (ANI): United Nations human rights investigators have collected testimony indicating that rebel forces used nerve agent sarin.
The evidence was collected from casualties of Syrian civil war and medical staff.
The United States has said it has 'varying degrees of confidence' that sarin has been used by Syrian Government on its people.
The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, commission member Carla Del Ponte said.
According to Jerusalem Post, in an interview with Swiss-Italian television he said that investigators in neighboring countries interviewed victims, doctors and field hospitals and concluded that there were strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof that sarin gas was used, from the way the victims were treated.
Del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney-general who also served as prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, gave no details as to when or where sarin may have been used.
The Geneva-based inquiry into war crimes and other human rights violations is separate from an investigation of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria instigated by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which has since stalled.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and the rebels have accused each another of carrying out three chemical weapon attacks, one near Aleppo and another near Damascus, both in March, and another in Homs in December. (ANI)
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