“Fadel Abdul Ghany, the chairman of the Syrian Network for Human Rights, said that serious questions remained unanswered about the failure of the UN to deploy search and rescue teams into opposition-held territory.
“”There was negligence on the part of the United Nations,”” he said. “”This is incomprehensible, unjustified, immoral and illegal.””
Ghany believes that at least dozens of lives could have been saved if the UN had taken prompt and decisive action. He said he had called on the UN to conduct an internal investigation but had not received a response.
UN officials, he said, had talked at length about the mechanisms and details of the earthquake response, but without providing adequate answers as to what had gone wrong.
“”In the end, all of these mechanisms failed,”” said Ghany.”
