UN Working Group on Mercenaries: are you ever going to investigate the influx of paid fighters into Syria?
In its report on 1 July 2013, the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination published the findings from its visits to Botswana, Ghana, the Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The Working … Continue reading
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Meet Dan Gillerman
The “Holocaust served as a warning to all people of the profound dangers of hatred, bigotry, and racism.” These were the wise words Israeli ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman contributed to the discourse in occasion of the UN General Assembly’s decision to adopt a resolution on Holocaust denial in 2007, a resolution whose text stressed “that all people and … Continue reading
WANTED: evidence that Hand in Hand for Syria is really in the business of saving lives
The intro to the video above is an intervention by Dr. Rola Hallam, who took part in an event called How Should the World Protect Syria’s Children? in November 2013, in which she appeared in the capacity of eyewitness of the Syrian crisis and spokesperson of the aid organisation Hand in Hand for Syria, which portrays itself to the public as a … Continue reading
Inside the BBC’s Uprising: Hand in Hand for Propaganda
The falsified material Member of Parliament George Galloway is referring to in the video above is of course the famous report the BBC released in August 2013, which was claimed to portray the victims of a napalm attack on a school near Aleppo, perpetrated by the Syrian air force. Too many are the questions that have been raised by independent … Continue reading
Syria: Three Years of Lies
Diplomatic Negotiations In April 2011, a Human Rights Council Resolution (A/HRC/RES/S-16/1) requested “to dispatch a mission to the Syrian Arab Republic to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law and to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated”. Interestingly, this came to pass only ten days after it was revealed that the … Continue reading
Massacre in Hama and outrageous lies by the SOHR
On Sunday, 9 February, a new massacre has been perpetrated by the jihadi terrorists in Syria - by Bahar Kimyongür The terrorist groups have targeted Maan this time, an Alawite village located in the central province of Hama. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a pro-insurgency office, has published an outrageously distorted report on the massacre [1]. The ‘NGO’ claims … Continue reading