Friday, April 12, 2013

Propaganda Human Rights Watch on Syria

So they came up with yet another report on Syria. You must be kidding me. It is as credible as US reports on Israeli human rights violations.  1) Notice that its criticisms of the Syrian armed opposition side is so polite and reserved that it only reminds you of its reserved criticisms of Israeli violations of human rights: "But it also castigated the Free Syrian Army, and other armed adversaries of the Assad government, saying insurgents did not take sufficient care to avoid deploying forces and setting up headquarters in or near densely populated areas. “An attacking party is not relieved from the obligation to take into account the risk to civilians from an attack on the grounds that the defending party has located military targets within or near populated areas,” said Human Rights Watch, which is based in New York." 2) The report admits that HRW only investigated in areas under the control of the rebels and said that the Syrian government did not allow them to operate.  This is interesting how Western media and human rights organization often justify their one-sidedness by invoking this statement and yet they manage to sneak in--or even enter as was the case of New York Times reporters recently--when they wish or when it is convenient.  3) The report said that military of the Free Syrian Army were never hit by the regime and only civilians were hit.  Of course, that claim in itself should have alerted the HRW team to the lied being fed to them by the FSA and they should have wondered how the fighters are not affected in the fighting although the Syrian Observatory maintained that some 1400 fighters were killed in March alone.   You know that the professional liars of the Free Syrian Army are going to claim that only civilians are killed on their side. 4) The report is so propagandistic that it claims that the offices of the Free Syrian Army were barely affected by the regime bombing as if you expect the liars of the Free Syrian Army to state publicly that yes, their offices were demolished by strikes.  5) Documentation by HRW on Syria would never ever be allowed to be used in investigation of Israeli war crimes:  "Human Rights Watch has also included several attacks that we documented through interviews with firsthand witnesses and review of photo and video material, but the sites of which we were not able to visit."  6) The report says:  "For each of these attacks, Human Rights Watch was not able to identify any military target, such as fighters or weapons, in the vicinity."  Well, not disputing the war crimes of the regime and its utter recklessness and callousness, but the team visited the site of the bombing long after it occurred, and it forgets that people and weapons can be MOVED.  I know that this is a novel idea but come on.  Also, if any of the witnesses were to admit to HRW any information that would be damaging to FSA, they would be tortured or killed. None of those possibilities are even considered by the Zionist Human Rights organization.   Yet, in another section, HRW suddenly admits that:  "The Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other Syrian armed opposition groups did not take all feasible measures to avoid deploying forces and structures such as headquarters in or near densely populated areas. For example, witnesses told Human Rights Watch that there were opposition fighters in or near the Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo city, which might have led to repeated attacks on that hospital."  And notice that the report calls on all countries to end all arms sales to the government but not to the rebels.

The propaganda work of HRW has reached a comical proportion.