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Their credibility is sorely lacking. Fake videos portray images unrelated to events. Reuters quoted an unidentified man "on video footage purportedly filmed in Treimseh." Uploaded online, he said:
"We were surrounded from four sides....with tanks and armored vehicles, and the helicopters were hovering above.""They burned people in front of our eyes. They held the men like this and stabbed them. They took out people's eyes."
We've heard and seen this all before. Manufactured lies conceal what's really happening.
Indeed government forces confronted killer gangs. They overran Treimseh and massacred dozens of civilians before Syria's military arrived.
Independent eyewitnesses report events accurately. Houla and Qubair massacres were replicated.
Syrian troops intervened to stop more killing. Assad loyalists were targeted. Mood left these facts unexplained. So did Reuters. Instead it misreported, saying:
Some people "said rebel fighters rushed to reinforce the village after it came under attack by infantry, artillery and aircraft, leading to a battle that lasted seven hours."
Pro-Assad shabbiha elements were wrongfully blamed. Those responsible aren't held accountable.
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