Syrian President Bashar Assad is miffed he isn’t being rewarded for his “humanitarian” efforts.
The accused war criminal spoke out about the Nobel Peace Prize going to weapons inspectors in Syria, joking to the press that "the prize should have been mine.”
Assad made the comments Monday to Al-Akhbar newspaper in response to the news that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has been overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, received the recognition.
Formed in 1997 to enforce the Chemical Weapons Convention, the group was called upon by the United Nations to investigate the use of chemical weapons in the war-torn country.
The Syrian Civil War, now in its third year, has gripped the international community, with shocking footage of scores of casualties that allegedly came at the hand of Assad’s government.
An estimated 100,000 people have been killed since the fighting began.
On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo praised the OPCW for its courage in sending weapons inspectors into the volatile region.
The group's director, Ahmet Uzumcu, thanked the global community for the honor but called its work in Syria a "tragic reminder that there remains much work to be done."
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