Syria chemical attack victims seek probe

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Syria Ghouta residents want chemical attacks re-investigated

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Tawfiq Diam's wife and four children aged between eight and 12 were killed in a chemical attack on 7 April 2018 , in Douma in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus .

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) said in a report last year that it believed a Syrian air force helicopter dropped two yellow cylinders which hit two apartment buildings, releasing highly concentrated chlorine gas.

The OPCW says there were more than 100 people killed in the attack, which Assad 's government denied ever using chemical weapons.

Tawfiq wants the graves dug up so he can give his family a dignified funeral.

Khalid Khalid says the testimony given by many to the OPCW fact-finding mission in 2019 was not reliable.

Abdul Rahman Hijazi , one of the eyewitnesses who testified before the mission, says he was forced to give the regime's version of events.

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