Syria: ‘Human Rights Watch’, Key Player in the Manufacture of Propaganda for War and Foreign Intervention | Global Research

Syria: ‘Human Rights Watch’, Key Player in the Manufacture of Propaganda for War and Foreign Intervention | Global Research

The Washington-based group ‘Human Rights Watch’– controlled by the US
foreign policy elite – has released another volley in its campaign to
back the ‘humanitarian war’ being waged against the independent nation
of Syria.

This is not the first or
second fabrication against Syria run by Human Rights Watch. The group
was amongst the first to falsely blame the Syrian government for the
East Ghouta chemical weapons incident of August 2013. The ‘moral panic’
from that accusation almost sparked a major escalation of the war.

Several reports have since proven that the accusation was a fraud. A
group led by Catholic nun Mother Agnes Mariam produced a report showing
the video evidence of the incident had been manipulated and staged; US
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh showed that US intelligence
implicating the Syrian Government had been fabricated; and the New York
Times retracted its support for speculative telemetry evidence, which
they had claimed implicated the Syrian Army. On the other side, Syrian
witnesses, a Jordanian reporter and a Turkish human rights group (‘Peace
Association and Lawyers for Justice in Turkey’) implicated Saudi-backed
terrorists. Further, the last UN report on the incident says that, in
most instances, chemical weapons were used ‘against soldiers’; that is,
against the government. HRW has neither retracted nor apologised for its
role in this scam.

The latest HRW story (‘Razed to the Ground’, 30 Jan) is that the
Syrian Government over 2012-13 demolished residential buildings in seven
areas of Hama and Damascus as ‘punishment’ for certain neighbourhoods
supporting ‘the rebels’. Thousands of families lost their homes in this
way, yet there have been ‘no similar demolitions in areas that support
the government’.

HRW said it ‘has not documented that anybody was injured or killed in
the process.’ Nevertheless, the use of home demolition as punishment
was ‘a violation … of the laws of war’ and amounts to a war crime. HRW
‘calls on the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the
International Criminal Court’.