© Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
In December 2016, filmmakers in Egypt were arrested in the process of staging an Aleppo video with two children: the girl was meant to look injured, and the boy was to vilify both Russia and Syria.
Even the corporate media
reported on it, including: "The girl's dress, covered in red paint, was what caught the attention of a police officer driving by, the ministry said."
The incidences of fakery and hoaxes, however, does not end there.Also in December, the scene of a 'Girl running to survive after her family had been killed' was said to be in Aleppo. In
reality, it was a scene from a Lebanese music video, which someone at some point clearly chose to depict as in Aleppo, for the same anti-Russian, anti-Assad vilification purposes.
In November 2014, a
clip dubbed 'Syrian hero boy' went viral, viewed over 5 million times already by mid-November. The clip showed what appeared to be a little boy saving his sister from sniper gunfire, and was assumed to have been in Syria.
Comment: With the UN's track record it's surprising they didn't pick ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to head the office! In any case, it seems some sense prevailed in picking a Russian to do the job.