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Eastern Ghouta neighborhood
Eastern Ghouta neighborhood
The "statement" - consisting of blank lines with the preface "No words will do justice to the children killed, their mothers, their fathers and their loved ones" - dovetails with corporate media's increasingly hysterical rhetoric on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, which has been plagued with chemical weapons attacks for over four years, perpetrated by U.S.-backed proxies allied with the Nusra Front attempting to frame the Syrian government with war crimes.
UNICEF further wrote: "We no longer have the words to describe children's suffering and our outrage. Do those inflicting the suffering still have words to justify their barbaric acts?"
Where was UNICEF's dramatic blank-lined protest when 200 civilians, including 116 children, were slaughtered by terrorist factions while in convoy from Kafraya and Foua in April 2017? These factions included Ahrar al-Sham (supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia), al-Nusra (al-Qaeda), and factions of the Free Syrian Army. The Free Syrian Army was armed by the U.S. And, according to the words of former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, Qatar - with the support and coordination of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the U.S. - was from the beginning supporting armed groups, even al-Qaeda, in Syria.
This seemingly outraged UN statement has made the rounds in corporate media reports on eastern Ghouta, most of which cite the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), run from his home by a sole person, Osama Suleiman, who uses the pseudonym Rami Abdul Rahman. In its recent Ghouta reports, SOHR itself does not provide sources.
Comment: Thank you Eva Bartlett for calling out the UN, UNICEF, OCHA, SOHR, NYT, USAID, MSF and a variety of dishonest reporters who disregard the facts, malign honest representatives, misrepresent the humanitarian toll, discount atrocities and knowingly misplace and exploit blame to support false narratives in the ongoing tragedy of Syria.