This report on Assad’s scorched earth campaign in Idlib is what journalism looks like, not the rubbish of propagandists who claim Syria & Russia are only bombing terrorists.
Daily Archives: July 8, 2019
Syrian & Russian bombers continue targeting Idlib for 71 days in a row. The UN reports that 330,000 people were displaced from the region just during the month of May. The Syrian Network for Human Rights which monitors casualties reports that 544 civilians, including 130 children, have been killed in hundreds of bombing & ground strikes & that 2,117 people have been injured.
This is a sketch based on an eyewitness photo from an operating room in Idlib where bombing victims are being treated or declared dead.
Stop the bombing in Idlib. They are civilians, not terrorists.
(Sketch is by artist Marc Nelson on Twitter)
A CNN article has been circulating for a few days with the title “13,000 migrant children in detention.” The article is from October 2018 & was a statistical underestimation then. But now, it is dead wrong. Last week, the head of US immigration said the Border Patrol had arrested 60,000 children, both unaccompanied & kidnapped from their parents, in just forty days between May & June. That is 60,000 on top of the thousands already held in concentration camps.
A brief history of the Uyghur struggle against Chinese genocide:
Good to know US immigration officials knew about the Facebook Border Patrol group ‘I’m 10-15’ which posted hateful racist & misogynist comments & images about refugees. But why didn’t Facebook censors come down on them like a hammer? Why instead are the censors going after Palestinians & Kashmiris for posting about life under military occupation?
The NY Times reports on India’s use of torture in Kashmir drawing from the 550-page report by the Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society. It would not be an exaggeration to say that coverage of the Kashmiri struggle in mainstream media would be almost nil were it not for the work of Kashmiri activists on social media who brought it to world attention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/world/asia/kashmir-india-torture.html?
I’m a fool for these rescue stories: maternal love, animal intelligence, human kindness.