Fake ‘Aleppo genocide’ pics spread online by terrorists

Takfiri terrorists, following their string of defeats in Syria by the government and popular forces, have resorted to yet another propaganda ploy with the help of their Zionist, American, and Arab reactionary godfathers, in a bid to vilify the liberators of Aleppo as heartless brutes trampling upon every humanitarian value. Following is an investigative report in this regard by MintPress, which has exposed the trick of the Takfiri terrorists to appear as oppressed and victims, as a white lie.

Propaganda about conditions in Aleppo, including photos recycled from other incidents in other places, is spreading online amid efforts to justify war on the Syrian government. An atmosphere of misinformation has become widespread with the media in many Third World countries, especially among misinformed Muslim people taking the bait and expressing hatred towards the Syrian government. Even mainstream media sources and humanitarian organizations admit that reports of atrocities in the besieged Syrian city are often unverifiable rumors.

For example, on Dec. 9, the Agence France-Presse claimed of the deaths of 82 civilians in Aleppo, allegedly the victims of Syrian government forces. Rupert Colville, the spokesman for the UN human rights office, told reporters in Geneva: “The UN human rights office said it had received reports of ‘pro-government forces killing at least 82 civilians including 11 women and 13 children in four different neighbourhoods.”

But the United Nations was unable or unwilling to stand by Colville’s claims, adding in a separate statement provided later to AFP: “We hope, profoundly, that these reports are wrong, or exaggerated, as the situation is extremely fluid and it is very challenging to verify reports.”

Shira Rubin, a reporter at Vocativ, noted that images of supposed atrocities in Aleppo are proliferating wildly on social media. However, Rubin added, “A large portion of those images are fake, sparking an uproar among those who argue the false posts diminish the reality of those suffering and fighting on the ground.” Syrian geopolitical analyst Mimi al-Laham took to Twitter on Dec. 14 to point out that images purporting to show a terrorist attack came from music videos and an unrelated bombing in Pakistan. Rubin added: “The frequent, pervasive rumors make it hard to know which sources of information are trustworthy, particularly as the UN and major NGOs frequently appear to exaggerate or even invent reports to support the push for war.”

He said: “The UN estimates that nearly 400,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, and more than half the population has been displaced. The numbers, which cannot be verified, have led to accusations and rumors as people online try to sort fact from fiction.”

Noting that these recycled images and false reports are spread “intentionally … for propaganda purposes as well as by inadvertent social media users,” Rubin wrote that the atmosphere of misinformation only strengthens the general belief that all Western media reports of its forces’ atrocities are false.

Even Eliot Higgins, a security analyst often called on by the mainstream media to promote a Western, pro-war viewpoint, admitted on Twitter on Dec. 13 that many images of alleged Aleppo atrocities appear to be recycled. He said: “All Aleppo executions images I've seen so far have been old and/or from elsewhere.

While attacks attributed to the Syrian government have been a frequent topic of reporting throughout the Syrian civil war, atrocities by so-called “moderate” rebels, forces with the backing of the United States and its allies in Europe and the Middle East, rarely receive the same enthusiastic treatment in the mainstream media. Reports have even suggested that some of these groups have blocked efforts to evacuate Aleppo’s civilian population, including Jabhat ash-Sham, an extremist group with both US backing and ties to al-Qaida.

Robert Fisk, a renowned foreign policy analyst, noted in a Dec. 14 report that the West also must be held accountable for its support of extremist groups involved in the conflict. He recounted one recent atrocity he heard from a refugee: “Only a few weeks ago, I interviewed one of the very first Muslim families to flee eastern Aleppo during a ceasefire. The father had just been told that his brother was to be executed by the rebels because he crossed the frontline with his wife and son. He condemned the rebels for closing the schools and putting weapons close to hospitals. And he was no pro-regime stooge; he even admired Isis for their good behaviour in the early days of the siege.”

Blaming atrocities in Syria solely on the Syrian government supports the agenda of the US government, which seeks to overthrow the Syrian government and replace it with one more amenable to Western interests and investment by fossil fuel companies. WikiLeaks’ archives of US diplomatic cables show that the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia have sought to unseat Assad since at least 2006. 

Those who would murder would not hesitate to fake photos and reports. The real evil is that the Western governments and media have accepted the lies of "activists" and fake humanitarians like White Helmet.

Voltaire, the French philosopher had said a couple of centuries ago: "Those who can be persuaded to accept absurdities can be persuaded to commit atrocities."

This statement absolves the Syrian military of murdering its own citizens and that too after liberating Aleppo from occupation of foreign backed terrorists. Thus, faking news pales compared to killing children and blaming it on their liberators. Does it mean they are dropping bombs only on Sunnis, with whom they had a stable relationship before Daesh terrorists popped up?

If this is the case, this new technology which detects a person's religious sect is really fantastic!

This means the overwhelming majority of Sunni Muslims that make up 70% of Syria's 25 million people do not support the rebellion against Assad's Alawite government, considered heretics by Daesh. Yet one reason why Assad remains in power is that the majority of Sunnis are on his side, and their support is aiding his survival, say analysts and rebels.

Even Abu Qays, an anti-government activist in the eastern city of Deir e-Zor recently admitted: "If Sunnis were united behind the rebels, trust me, Bashar would've fallen within days."

This is proof of the popularity of the Syrian government and the futility of the western, Zionist, Saudi and Turkish efforts, to overthrow him. The fact is, until the US and its accomplices armed Daesh and sought to create a so-called caliphate in Northern Syria, all groups, Christian, Sunni, Shia, Alawite, lived in peace. US policy is divide and conquer, so its policy of provoking Sunni/Shiite conflict continues. When the group operations fail, they fall back on propaganda lies, such as the false flag attacks by the so-called "opposition" against Syrian citizens, which journalist Hersh exposed in his Red Lines and Rat Lines, and which fake groups like White Helmet, recently caught staging a fake event, promote.

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