SELLSTROM ON BLAME FOR AL GHOUTA

Q : Professor Sellström, it was not part of your mandate as UN investigator to identify the perpetrator of the chemical attacks in Syria. Now that you have left the UN position, do you feel that you can conclude from the total body of evidence available that the Syrian government was responsible for one or more chemical attacks?

A : I am not sure whether I can be a private individual on this issue, but my personal and my professional positions do not differ from each other. We do not have the evidence to say who did what, but on the other hand, we do not have the evidence to say that it could not have been done by this or that party.

[source : Searching for the Smoking Gun: An Interview With Åke Sellström, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=54863, 11th March 2014]