Amnesty International says attacks against the Syrian airbase ” “knee-jerk reaction”

 YemenExtra

 Amnesty International has mildly criticized a recent US strike on a Syrian airbase, describing it as “knee-jerk reaction”.

Amnesty’s Secretary General Salil Shetty on Tuesday, “It’s one thing to have some air strikes by the US on a one-off basis, but it’s not going to address this problem.”

“The biggest challenge we have in Syria, the reason why this keeps happening again and again is because there is no accountability and no justice,” Shetty said.

He added that such actions only serve to prove that the world’s ability to enforce human rights is in “shambles.”

Shetty also slammed all five permanent members of the UN Security Council for playing “politics” amid the situation in Syria.

“Instead of taking care of global peace and global interests, they play politics,” Shetty added.

He also noted that US President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban, was in “complete contradiction” to the distress he was showing for the victims of the Khan Shaykhun attack.