On Tuesday 6 March, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, and the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Christos Stylianides, said that the disastrous humanitarian situation in Eastern Ghouta could be the result of deliberate war crimes on the part of fighters allied to the Syrian regime.
“A year-long siege used for the purpose of starving the population and the indiscriminate shelling of the civilian population may amount to...