A White Helmet rescue worker with injured child after Russian airstrike in Idlib: here you have one of the reasons why fascists & other Assad supporters spend most of their time vilifying the White Helmets. It’s the old switch & bait routine since in the last 24 hours Russian bombers killed over 50 civilians, including 15 children, in Syria’s “ceasefire zones”. Syria’s allies in counter-revolution–including Russia, Iran, the US, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabi, ISIS–do not want revolution against dictatorship in Syria any more than they want it in their own countries.
“The world’s first organized mass blinding is taking place in Kashmir by India’s occupational state.” But apparently this is all news to Indian media. Perhaps activists can relay these photos to Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s representative at the UN, so she has accurate photos of pellet gun injuries in Kashmir, & also to Indian media who are playing stupid about pellet gun injuries.
So glad Indian media straightened out Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s UN representative, who held up a photo at the UN General Assembly of a Palestinian girl suffering shrapnel injuries from Israeli carpet bombing of Gaza in 2014. Here she thought it was one of the thousands of young people in Kashmir suffering pellet gun injuries inflicted by the Indian occupying army–like the young boy on the right.
Now that Indian media has clarified that, will they start reporting on the criminal military relationship India has going with Israel & start reporting on the Indian army’s human rights crimes in Kashmir? Or will they just ride it out & continue covering for the monstrous crimes of their government? Does Indian media require more documentation of pellet gun injuries in Kashmir? That can, unfortunately, be provided in abundance.
(Photo on left is Palestinian girl; photo on right is Kashmiri boy)
Buddhist monks formed a human chain in front of the Chittagong Press Club in Chittagong, Bangladesh demanding Burmese government end atrocities against Rohingya.
Documentary filmmaker Shafiur Rahman, who has been reporting from Bangladesh since this genocidal onslaught began, interviewed this Hindu refugee on video about media reports that Rohingya Muslim terrorists are executing Hindus & dumping them in mass graves. The source media cite for this information is the Burmese government carrying out genocide against the Rohingya people.
This fellow who witnessed events described how a death squad of masked men dressed in black who he did not recognize laid siege to his village for five days & executed Hindus & Muslims alike. Reuters & other media sources could do the same thing as Shafiur Rahman if they really want to know what happened. They could interview not just this man but other Hindu as well as Rohingya refugees from the same town. They could try to find out if the Burmese army is engaged in genocide against Hindus as well as Rohingya in Arakan state. Instead media plays ventriloquist dummy to the Burmese generals. What kind of journalism is that?
You can watch the video on Twitter at Shafiur Rahman @shafiur or Rohingya Blogger @rohingyablogger.
Photo on top is Burmese activist Maung Zarni with Rohingya activist Imran Mohammed; photo on bottom is Maung Zarni with Rohingya activist Ziaur Rahman both taken at International Peoples’ Tribunal on Burma’s crimes against humanity. Many know Imran & Ziaur from their educational role on social media but both are activists for Rohingya rights.
