In a blistering indictment, UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien called the failure of the UN security council, and Russia in particular, to stop the bombing of eastern Aleppo as “our generation’s shame”. It can be stopped but you the security council have to choose to make it stop.”O’Brien added: “This council has been charged with the responsibility for ending this horror. Since my last report to this council less than a month ago – 400 more people have been killed and nearly 2,000 injured in eastern Aleppo. Power called Churkin’s remarks “an attack on the UN” and derided the Russian claim that its airstrikes on eastern Aleppo were aimed at terrorists, asking whether Russia believed the estimated 100,000 children in eastern Aleppo were also included. She held up a copy of a leaflet that has reportedly been dropped in large numbers on eastern Aleppo by Syrian and Russian planes.

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2016 00:20 UTC