International media & their dubious sources
As evacuations of civilians from Rukban have unfolded, any Western corporate media that bothers to report on them has spun them as 'forced displacement' to 'regime areas' where civilians will be 'imprisoned and tortured.'
Yeah, Syria and Russia are simply hell-bent on
finding any way to torture Syrian civilians, to the extent that they will waste
considerable amounts of money and time to do so [sarcasm!] , or at
least, that's what corporate media would have you believe.
And just as Western
corporate media relied on the words of "media activists" and "unnamed sources"
in their war propaganda prior to and during the liberation of eastern
Aleppo and eastern Ghouta, hostile media are again relying on such sources for reporting on Rukban.
Canada's Globe and Mail went as far as to cite the utterly non-credible, Qatar-based, Syrian Network for Human Rights in a recent article claiming that thousands of Syrians who have returned home have been arrested.
As journalist Max Blumenthal humorously pointed out in his investigation into this Qatar-influenced body,
"citing the Syrian Network for Human Rights as an independent and credible source is the journalistic equivalent of sourcing statistics on head trauma to a research front created by the National Football League, or turning to tobacco industry lobbyists for information on the connection between smoking and lung cancer."
Contrasting the claims, Syrian authorities have stated that UN representatives have permission to visit the refugee centres. The Russian Reconciliation Centre stated that UN bodies, including the UNHCR, visited the shelters.
As of June 16, the Russian Reconciliation Centre reports that "1,299,977 IDPs have returned back to their homes" in Syria since September 30, 2015, and that since July 2018, "175 medical and 863 educational organizations have been recovered."
Those are some odd statistics given that Western media and politicians would have us believe that the Syrian and Russian governments are terrorizing civilians and gleefully destroying infrastructure in Syria.
Or perhaps what Western media, governments, and lobby groups are spouting is just more, unoriginal, war propaganda.
[Republished from In Gaza and Beyond]
FURTHER READING/VIEWING:
-US Propaganda Blitz Ahead of Idlib's Liberation, Tony Cartalucci, June 11, 2019
-Liberate Syria's Idlib, precisely for the civilians that America fakes concern over, Eva Bartlett, May 2019
-Faked concern: Haley & corporate media bleating about Idlib civilians, ignore terrorists' presence, Eva Bartlett, October 2018
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