Thread by @aaronjmate

On Friday, I spoke to the UN Security Council about the OPCW's Syria cover-up.

I gave a presentation debunking the OPCW's key lies about the scandal, & confronted the US & UK about their obstructive role.

Full video: via @TheGrayzoneNews @PushbackShow

I opened with a summary of the OPCW's Syria scandal: OPCW inspectors found no evidence of a Syrian government chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma in April 2018. But their findings were doctored and suppressed, and the entire team was sidelined:

On top of the censorship, a US delegation pressured the Douma team to back US claims of a chemical attack (its pretext for bombing Syria in April 2018).

OPCW has since attacked the dissenters; & US-UK state-funded media actors Bellingcat & BBC have been leaked disinformation:

The OPCW has said very little to explain its refusal to address the Douma cover-up. I gave a visual presentation debunking one of its few claimed excuses: that "most of the analytical work took place" in the "last six months" of the Douma investigation. That's demonstrably false.

I also addressed a new excuse from OPCW chief Fernando Arias. He now claims that "I don't know why" the OPCW's final Douma report "was contested."
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That's also demonstrably false, by Arias' own prior statements:

At the UN meeting, Amb. Mills of @USUN & @AmbassadorAllen of UK dismissed the OPCW scandal as disinformation.

If they are so confident in that, I asked if they'll back a proposal to let the OPCW's Scientific Advisory Board assess the issue on its merits:

.@USUN, @AmbassadorAllen of UK and others did not challenge a single fact about the Douma cover-up.

They instead raised side issues, e.g. Navalny, Ukraine, & OPCW IIT's new Saraqib probe. I noted that by OPCW's own standards, the Saraqib probe is compromised too:

I also noted the obvious: by censoring the OPCW's investigation, OPCW leadership & powerful states are denying justice to the Douma victims.

You can't claim to care about the Douma victims while censoring the probe into their murder. That's a cover-up.