Grim centenary of first ever chemical weapons attack

Описание: It is the most solemn of centenaries....exactly 100 years since the first large-scale use of chemical weapons.

Victims from World War One were remembered at Ypres in Belgium, where chlorine gas was first used in conflict a century ago.

Members and guests of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons gathered there on the eve of the April 22 centenary and paid tribute to all those killed in such attacks.

In 2015 the use of chlorine gas as a weapon is still being reported in Syria…
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