Thread by @BenjaminNorton

Channel 4 spent months advocating for the Saudi-funded Salafi extremists occupying Ghouta.

But now that journos won't be kidnapped by these fascists, reporters actually talked to average Syrians who lived under the dystopian "rebel" regime: "It was hell"
channel4.com/news/inside-gh…

Average Syrians in formerly "rebel"-controlled Eastern Ghouta told Channel 4 about life under the Saudi-funded Salafi extremists in Jaish al-Islam.

One man was kidnapped for refusing to fight for these fascists. So they brutally tortured him and smashed his hand with a hammer.

A Syrian describes how the Saudi-funded fascist "moderate rebels" occupying Eastern Ghouta held public executions and tortured critics in their underground prisons.

"It was a living death, a terrible existence, a life without meaning. We were the living dead," added another man.

A Syrian mother recalls life under the foreign-backed Salafi "moderate rebels" in Eastern Ghouta:
"We lived in hell. We didn't have anything, no power, no water — the rebels cut off everything. They stopped food getting to children."

Syrian residents of "rebel"-occupied Eastern Ghouta say they frequently saw foreign fighters, especially Saudis, embedded in these fascist "rebel" groups who terrorized them.

Jaish al-Islam was bankrolled by and created at the behest of Saudi Arabia
reuters.com/article/us-syr…

A Syrian woman said of the Saudi-backed extremist Salafi "rebels" occupying Eastern Ghouta:
"They shut down everything. They stopped us leaving. If anyone tried to leave they would kill them"

The UN also confirmed this undeniable fact nytimes.com/2018/03/09/wor…

So let's get this straight: Saudi-backed fascist "rebels" occupied Syria's Eastern Ghouta, killed and tortured dissidents, held civilians hostage and hoarded aid.

Meanwhile BBC propaganda described the liberation of this area as "a 21st century Holocaust"
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05…

Everything these Syrians described about the hellish fascist regime in Eastern Ghouta was repeated by Syrian civilians living under the dystopian Salafi regimes in "rebel"-held Aleppo and Idlib, in a report released by Amnesty (which is pro-opposition) salon.com/2016/07/11/u_s…

Reuters likewise confirmed that the foreign-backed al-Qaeda-allied "moderate rebels" who occupied east Aleppo were hoarding large amounts of food and other aid, selling it on the black market while Syrian civilians starved.
reuters.com/video/2016/12/…

As was later repeated in Eastern Ghouta, any Syrian civilians who tried to flee the fascist regime in Salafi-held east Aleppo were shot by the foreign-backed "rebels."
independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

As with Eastern Ghouta, media outlets outrageously compared the defeat of fascist death squads in east Aleppo to the Holocaust.

Yet now that these areas are free of genocidal Salafi militias, media have no interest in the Syrian civilians returning home.
itv.com/news/2016-09-2…

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