Exclusive-Syrians lead push to create global chemical weapons tribunal

Safaa Kamel, 35, a teacher who says she suffered health effects following a gas attack on her home region of Eastern Ghouta in Syria in 2013 and, now displaced to the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin, plays with children at a school in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, Syria November 28, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano

THE HAGUE/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Illegal chemical weapons attacks killed and injured thousands during Syria's civil war, many of them children, but more than a decade later, the perpetrators go unpunished.

That could change under an initiative to create a new tribunal for such atrocities launched in The Hague on Thursday.