Aleppo
Doctor Attacks Western Media for Bias, Censorship and Lies
By Silvia Cattori
Nabil Antaki |30th April 2016
By Silvia Cattori
Nabil Antaki |30th April 2016
Dr Nabil Antaki could have abandoned Aleppo to ensure his own
safety. Instead he decided to remain and to serve the besieged people of his
City, working with various local charities. Above all, he wanted to bear
witness to the destruction caused by Western support for the foreign armed
groups who have been systematically destroying Syria and terrorising its people
for the last 5 years.
Yesterday Silvia Cattori recorded this report from Dr
Antaki on the recent amplification of propaganda surrounding events in Aleppo.
It has been translated from the French by Vanessa Beeley.
“With regards to recent events in Aleppo, I state very clearly
that the mainstream media are lying by omission. Since the beginning of the war
in Aleppo that began 4 years ago, they have consistently failed to report all
the facts.
All of us here in Aleppo are disgusted by their lack of
impartiality and objectivity. They only ever talk about the loss of life in the
east of Aleppo which is entirely controlled by Al Nusra, a terrorist group
affiliated with Al Qaeda. These are their “moderate rebels” a title that
affords them an unmerited degree of respectability.
This same media remains silent on the daily losses and suffering
endured in the Western areas of Aleppo living under the rain of mortar fire
from these terrorist factions. This media never mentions the terrorist
blockade upon our people or the electricity cuts and water shortages inflicted
upon us by their “moderate rebels”
Read more on Aleppo’s terrorist blockade, water shortages and
starvation here: Syria, from the Sublime to the Shameful.
This media never mention the continuous bombardment and the
carnage we have witnessed in western Aleppo where every single sector has
been targeted. On a daily basis we see dozens of people murdered.
What makes these omissions even more despicable is that these
areas represent 75% of Aleppo and there are 1.5 million people living in them.
Compare this to the 300,000 living in the eastern zone which is occupied by terrorist
groups.
This twisted narrative engenders the belief that these terrorist
groups that are attacking us are actually the victims. Even more abhorrent,
these media have distorted our “Save Aleppo” appeal, to make it look as if we
are calling for Assad and the Syrian Army to cease hostilities!
This is FALSE. Added to which, they are not “Assad’s forces“,
they are the national forces of the regular Syrian army that is defending the
Syrian State.
The western and gulf media could at least have had the decency to
mention the terrorist massacres of our people. For example, on Friday 30th
April, when one of their mortars targeted a mosque at prayer time.
The attacks and losses we suffer are reported in a way that leaves
the public in the dark about the true perpetrators of these crimes.
For three days now, these media outlets have been accusing the “Assad
regime” of bombing an MSF hospital [Medecins sans Frontieres] to the east
of Aleppo and of killing the last paediatrician in the city. This demonstrates
that, for these media, the only priority is this pocket of the city where
terrorists are embedded.
The three quarters of Aleppo under Syrian Government control where
numerous paediatricians are practicing is of no consequence for this media. We
witnessed the same bias when Al Kindi, the biggest hospital in Aleppo, was
targeted by terrorist mortars and then intentionally burnt down about 2 or 3
years ago. The media ignored this criminal act.
We are disheartened and disgusted by this continuous
disinformation.”
Nabil Antaki |30th April 2016
Translation: VANESSA
BEELEY | MAY 1, 2016
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