Big Picture: Syria Conflict
November 12th, 2012Via: Boston Globe:
In a conflict dragging on into its twentieth violent month, today was an especially deadly day in Syria, where rebels are fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad. A pair of car bombs exploded, one in Hama and one in Damascus, and both sides claimed wildly different casualty totals. Intense shelling of rebel positions served as counterpoint. But even an especially deadly day here makes it just one of many in the conflict that has claimed as many as 35,000 victims since it began with street protests on March 15, 2011. Over a quarter of a million refugees have fled to Syria’s neighbors, and the UN puts the number of internally displaced at over a million. Gathered here are images from the last month in the Mediterranean country of 22 million.
It’s a very one sided photo gallery. Only wounded people were the victims of the govt. No photos of syrian soldiers.
Bizarre.
It’s not that bizarre since the Syrian regime is hunting down and assassinating journalists:
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679429/how-the-syrian-government-hunts-journalists-covering-its-atrocities
Cui bono?
My gut tells me that something is off on this whole story. Like Jessica Lynch. Or the Saddam statue being pulled down. Or Pat Tillman. We should all understand that false narratives can easily be created then morph through the media into something “pivotal”.
So here are my issues with this whole story
First: this narrative has entirely originated with the “opposition”
For nearly a year, covering the Syrian destabilization, the words emanating from the “oppostion” have almost always been far from fact . Far from fact!
Here is the video released by the activists that got this whole ball rolling:
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2012/02/marie-colvin-is-false-narrative-being.html