Friday, August 17, 2012

the massacre at Azaz

Akram, the Syria correspondent for Angry Arab, sent me this:

"A picture is worth a thousand words: Here are a set of pictures of the massacre that took place yesterday morning in the town of Azaz when a Syrian fighter jet bombed a residential neighborhood, killing more than 40 civilians and wounding at least 100.

More on this massacre can be found here."  Akram then worried that some of the circulated pictures by the exile Syrian opposition have been proven to be fabricated so he added this:

"The masscre is true. Regarding the photos themselves, I googled them and here is what I found:


The photo showing the child covered by dust is seemingly for a victim killed in an earthquake that took place in Iran (I couldn't verify the exact date). And here is the link.

The photo showing dead bodies laying on the ground and around them people on their knees appeared in an article dated in June, 1, 2012. They are people said to be killed in Al-Kussayr

I also doubt that the one showing the hand of a victim under among the rubble is also fake but I couldn't verify


The other ones are genuine.

So it's up to you to decide what to do with the post".