"The BBC article is about a report from Amnesty International, published last week, which has documented how, in Aleppo:
government forces and many rebel groups are committing war crimes on a daily basis.
But nowhere in the article is it actually stated that the destruction shown in the image that Roth linked to was caused by a barrel bomb. Indeed, it doesn’t even say that it was caused by Syrian regime bombing at all.
The caption accompanying the image states:
Much of Aleppo, Syria’s industrial and financial centre, has been devastated
That it unambiguously shows the aftermath of a regime barrel bomb would appear to be nothing but Roth’s own interpretation.
However, given that the article is about both rebel *and* regime crimes, I am not sure that interpretation is reasonable.
A bit of further digging reveals that the image in question was taken by AFP photographer George Ourfalian on April 9th 2015, and is sourced to Getty Images. The blurb accompanying the photo states that:"
government forces and many rebel groups are committing war crimes on a daily basis.
But nowhere in the article is it actually stated that the destruction shown in the image that Roth linked to was caused by a barrel bomb. Indeed, it doesn’t even say that it was caused by Syrian regime bombing at all.
The caption accompanying the image states:
Much of Aleppo, Syria’s industrial and financial centre, has been devastated
That it unambiguously shows the aftermath of a regime barrel bomb would appear to be nothing but Roth’s own interpretation.
However, given that the article is about both rebel *and* regime crimes, I am not sure that interpretation is reasonable.
A bit of further digging reveals that the image in question was taken by AFP photographer George Ourfalian on April 9th 2015, and is sourced to Getty Images. The blurb accompanying the photo states that:"
