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Assad Regime Barrel Bombs Fall at Random on Syrian Town
Published 3 years ago
Members of the Free Syrian Army record as a barrel bomb is dropped at random near their location in the Daraa Governate. This footage was recorded in 2016.
If you've ever wondered what people were talking about when they mention the use of barrel bombs against civilians in Syria, this video should give you a decent idea of what they're talking about. Barrel bombs are improvised unguided munitions packed with high explosives, shrapnel, and other materials that can make them particular nasty. In past cases, it has been alleged that the Assad regime has packed these barrel bombs with chlorine gas.
In order to launch these munitions, they're simply kicked out of the back of an aircraft or helicopter as the airframe flies over the target area. There is no aiming with them whatsoever, they tend to just land where they land. If a civilian is in the way, then that's too bad for them according to the Assad Regime's paradigm on warfighting.
As of December 2017, some 70,000 barrel bombs had been dropped at random into Free Syrian Army controlled territories.
