Zakharova:
Propaganda campaign on ‘Damascus using chemical weapons’ is
launched
RT,
2
July, 2017
A
propaganda campaign to blame Syria’s government for alleged use of
chemical weapons has begun, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Maria Zakharova has warned, adding that the effort is expected to be
massive and include “many fakes.”
“As
we warned a few days ago, a media propaganda campaign on the ‘use
of chemical weapons by Damascus’ has begun,” Zakharova
wrote on Facebook.
Как мы и предупреждали несколько дней назад, началась информационно-пропагандистская кампания о "применении Дамаском химического оружия". Старт дан. Таких роликов будет всё больше, они будут разными по качеству исполнения - и такими низкопробными как этот и голливудского уровня. Фальшивок будет много, кампания запланирована масштабная.
Zakharova’s
post was accompanied by a screenshot from a video being shared on
social media allegedly showing a hospital in eastern Ghouta. The
speaker in the video claims the people he is filming have been
affected by “chlorine
gas used by the regime.”
“There
will be more of such videos, and they will be of different quality –
either low-grade, like this one or of Hollywood level. There will be
many fakes, the planned campaign is a massive one,” the
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
On
Saturday, a Syrian rebel group accused government forces of using
chlorine gas against its fighters east of Damascus.
A
Reuters report cited a militant group called Failaq al-Rahman which
alleged that more than 30 people had “suffered
suffocation as a result of the attack in Ain Tarma in the eastern
Ghouta region.”
The
Syrian army command denied the allegations in a statement run by
state media saying that the army “has
not used any chemical weapons in the past, and will not use them at
any time.”
Syria
also dismissed a report from the UN’s Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on a chemical incident in the
town of Idlib in April as one-sided, lacking evidence, and aimed at
encouraging terrorists, as they are being defeated in many parts of
Syria.
Russian
OPCW representative Alexander Shulgin has said the report is based
on “questionable
evidence.”
“The
conclusions of this report are based on questionable data provided
primarily by all kinds of the Syrian armed opposition groups and
NGOs, including the infamous White Helmets,” he
told RT.
The
report’s fact-finding team did not visit the site of the alleged
chemical attack near Idlib and relied only on evidence provided
by“various
NGOs” present
at the scene and accounts from eyewitnesses, as well as medical
specialists who treated the victims in “one
of the neighboring countries.”
The
report, which has been seen by RT, asserts that “the
team was unable to implement a complete chain of custody, by the
team, for samples from source.”
Alaa
Ebrahim, a Syrian journalist, told RT on Sunday that alleging that
the Syrian government has carried out chemical weapons attacks has
become a common tactic employed by terrorists and rebel groups.
“Chemical
weapons attack is a serious crime, and crimes should be investigated
thoroughly – not just countless circumstantial evidences as it was
in previous incidents,” he
said.
“There
have been allegations, intelligence, but we have no credible proof or
evidence of what really happened,” Ebrahim
explained, adding that the Syrian military is beating the militants
in many parts of the country, and it would make no sense for it to
use prohibited weapons, as it would play into the hands of the
rebels.
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