{"id":42283,"date":"2023-03-25T06:08:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=42283"},"modified":"2023-03-25T06:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:46:19","slug":"aaron-mate-at-un-opcw-cover-up-denies-justice-to-douma-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/25\/aaron-mate-at-un-opcw-cover-up-denies-justice-to-douma-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Mat&eacute; at UN: OPCW Cover-Up Denies Justice to Douma Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday March 24, I spoke to the United Nations Security Council about the OPCW\u2019s ongoing cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of the scandal are two veteran OPCW scientists who deployed to Syria in April 2018 for the OPCW\u2019s Douma probe. The pair have accused senior OPCW officials of manipulating the investigation to reach a conclusion that baselessly implicated the Syrian government in a chlorine gas attack. Their concerns are backed up by a trove of leaked documents, which I have extensively reported on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mate.substack.com\/\">Read more soon at my substack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v1BCtPgyxYI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday March 24, I spoke to the United Nations Security Council about the OPCW\u2019s ongoing cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria. At the center of the scandal are two veteran OPCW scientists who deployed to Syria in April 2018 for the OPCW\u2019s Douma probe. The pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-42283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42291,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions\/42291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42283"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=42283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}