From Angry Arab correspondent in Syria: "There are too many lies, misleads and dishonest practices when it's about Syria.
Here are some examples for the last couple of days:
1. Two or fifty?
Sana, July 13: an eyewitness told the Syrian TV that 50 civilians killed by the "terrorists" in Al-traimseh
Abo Arif al-Khalid, an eye witness from the targeted village, stated in a phone call to Syrian TV, that the village of al-Treimseh lived a nightmare when armed terrorist groups attacked it and opened random fire on its inhabitants and houses, killing more than 50 persons, and exploding houses, among which the house of his cousin
He added that 37 gunmen and 2 civilians were killed in the operation according to reliable sources and "the testimony of a venerable man who participated in burying the dead,"
1. Two or fifty?
Sana, July 13: an eyewitness told the Syrian TV that 50 civilians killed by the "terrorists" in Al-traimseh
Abo Arif al-Khalid, an eye witness from the targeted village, stated in a phone call to Syrian TV, that the village of al-Treimseh lived a nightmare when armed terrorist groups attacked it and opened random fire on its inhabitants and houses, killing more than 50 persons, and exploding houses, among which the house of his cousin
Sana,
July 16: Jihad Makdissi, the spokesperson of the Syrian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, said in a press conference 2 civilians killed
in Al-Traimseh
He added that 37 gunmen and 2 civilians were killed in the operation according to reliable sources and "the testimony of a venerable man who participated in burying the dead,"
2.What the International Red
Cross said on Syria?
Red Cross qualified the situation in Syria as a
"non-international armed conflict". Hisham Hassan, the spokesperson of the ICRC
told Reuters that the term "civil war" has "no legal meaning as
such"
For the western media Red Cross said it's a civil war:
For the western media Red Cross said it's a civil war:
Reuters: The International Committee for the Red
Cross now classifies the conflict as a civil
warWashington Post: Red Cross
labels the Syrian conflict a civil war
CNN: With violence spreading throughout the country, the Red Cross announced that the conflict is a civil war throughout the country.
CBS News: Red Cross calls Syria uprising a civil war
CNN: With violence spreading throughout the country, the Red Cross announced that the conflict is a civil war throughout the country.
CBS News: Red Cross calls Syria uprising a civil war
But Also Al-Akhbar
English!!!: The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Sunday
it now considers the conflict in Syria to be a full-blown civil
war
For me, civil war means something like what
happened in Lebanon, Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, or the ongoing conflict in
Somalia... I don't see such a thing in Syria....
3. I thought the shameful practice of exposing confessions of detainees on the media before being trialed is a registered trademark of the Syrian TV. But I was wrong: on July 14, The Daily Telegraph proved to be dirtier than all the public and the semi-public Syrian media outlets combined, when it published the "confessions" of "an Assad Shabiha loyalist" arrested by the rebels in Idleb. This time, the prisoner will likely soon to meet his death without a trial".
3. I thought the shameful practice of exposing confessions of detainees on the media before being trialed is a registered trademark of the Syrian TV. But I was wrong: on July 14, The Daily Telegraph proved to be dirtier than all the public and the semi-public Syrian media outlets combined, when it published the "confessions" of "an Assad Shabiha loyalist" arrested by the rebels in Idleb. This time, the prisoner will likely soon to meet his death without a trial".
