Yes, I have read it. And no, the UN doesn't say he's the only one who's done it, or "a lot". The wording in the beginning of that wiki article is very misleading, likely intentionally so (so readers get the impression you mistakenly did). The UN investigation into the Ghouta* and Khan al-Assal incidents, concluded the "probable use" of chemical weapons by the rebels, not Assad.
The wiki article states UN confirmation that chemical weapons have been used in Syria (probably fact), then very loosely states Assad is considered the main suspect (but fails to state by WHOM), and then continues by mentioning the confirmed use of chemical weapons in Ghouta* and Khan al-Assal, wholly omitting the fact that in these instances the UN concluded the rebels were the main suspects. That is extremely dodgy relaying of the facts, designed to give the impression Assad is responsible for all of this.
* EDIT - Actually Jobar, not Ghouta.
Initial paragraphs aside, the table in that wiki then clearly shows that the Syrian army is not the only party blamed by the UN for chemical attacks, and that Syrian army soldiers have been victims of chemical attacks a number of times. So other parties must be considered, particularly when the motive for them doing this screams to high heaven.
Only on two occasions, has the UN concluded and directly accused Assad's forces of using chlorine. Chlorine. That's not a chemical weapon, although it can be used as one. Is it better, or worse, than something like the white phosphorous used by the US military? Is 80 people killed by gas (allegedly) better, or worse, than 200 killed in a US airstrike in Mosul two weeks ago? Is Theresa May a war criminal for her role in the genocide of Yemen?
I have seen video of so-called rebel "doctors" killing a baby by pretending to inject the heart with adrenaline, whilst intentionally angling the needle everywhere inside the chest, like you would with a knife in an attempt to kill someone, moving and tearing organs, to make sure it dies and counts as one more statistic in "the long list of his own people that Assad has killed". I have seen video of rebels eating the hearts of Syrian army soldiers. I have seen videos of children drugged to their eyeballs with opiates, to make it look like they are dead, for the cameras. Every time the media screams that Assad is killing his own people, it's like they are suspending the fact that Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda, ISIL etc even exist, and that innocent people are always going to be caught up in war, and suffer. A war that US and British (and others') policy also bears much responsibility for.
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