Just days after Tunisian-born French resident Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck into a crowded Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing at least 84,
a French-led bombing attack on the Syrian villages of Tokhar and Hoshariyeh today has reportedly killed more than 120 civilians.
Mainstream media and
even the rebel-friendly Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have confirmed the killings and the civilian victims.
Shortly after the Nice attack, French president Hollande
vowed to retaliate by stepping up bombing in Iraq and Syria.
True to his word, Hollande has today killed more than
120 civilians in Syria (warning graphic photos) in retaliation for the actions of a French resident of Tunisian origin (who is said to
not even have been a practicing Muslim).
We may be left asking the obvious couple of questions.
Why do 120 innocent Syrian civilians deserve to die because 84 innocent French civilians were killed in a terrorist attack? And how does France expect to avoid further blowback for its aggressive Middle East policy if it continues to provide endless recruiting narratives?
Comment: This comes at the same time that the same mainstream sources are reporting on
U.S. airstrikes killing 56 civilians
in Manbij. SOHR (the British anti-Assad 'observatory', i.e., one guy on his computer) is even reporting 11 dead children.
In a statement, rights watchdog Amnesty International said the U.S.-led coalition must do more to prevent civilian deaths. "Anyone responsible for violations of international humanitarian law must be brought to justice and victims and their families should receive full reparation," Amnesty's interim Middle East director Magdalena Mughrabi said.
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The Observatory said at least 104 civilians have died from air strikes since the start of the Manbij offensive in late May.
Syria's main opposition body, the High Negotiations Committee [i.e. the Saudis], criticized both the SDF and the coalition, which it blamed for what it said were hundreds of civilian deaths around Manbij.
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Between Sept. 10, 2015 and Feb. 2, 2016, coalition air strikes in Iraq and Syria probably killed 20 civilians and injured 11 others, the U.S. Central Command said in April.
On Tuesday, the coalition said the SAC captured an IS command center in western Manbij on Sunday that was concealed in a hospital and was also being used as a logistics hub.
The coalition admits that Daesh takes over hospitals and uses them as command centers. Kinda puts reports that Syria and Russia 'bomb hospitals' into perspective, doesn't it (disregarding the obvious fake reporting designed to smear Assad and Putin)?
What's up with this uptick in reporting on American atrocities in Syria?
What lunacy. Almost 15 years since 911 and look at how we've grown. Open season on civilians. I am ashamed to be a human,and also,that I can think of no solution that would end this insanity. ... [Link]