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A little thread on some of the more popular war crime denialism memes that have being doing the rounds after the Douma Chemical Attack. Yes, this is the world we live in.
Images from the set of a film about a western journalist who travels to Syria and helps fake war crimes are repurposed by war crime denialists claiming it’s the White Helmets faking footage of war crimes: bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018…
Video footage claiming to show jihadi rebels teaching children to fake chemical attacks is from a 2013 play about “the horrors of chemical weapons”. Such a bad case of war crime denialism that even RT debunked it rt.com/news/423927-sy…
An oldie but a goldie, war crime denialists use images from a poorly thought out White Helmets mannequin challenge video as evidence they’re faking footage of war crimes bellingcat.com/resources/arti…
Bodies in shrouds moving are used by war crime denialists to attack those alleging war crimes in Syria, but the footage is actually from a student protest in Egypt verify-sy.com/det/925/en
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With no #Douma investigation, no UN mandate, and in clear breach of international law, US UK France launch attack against a sovereign nation that hasn't attacked them, in 'retaliation' for an alleged event the circumstances of which are very far from clear
theguardian.com/world/2018/apr…
No surprise perhaps as to the timing of US UK France attacks, just hours before the scheduled start of @OPCW investigations which potentially very quickly could have established whether a chemical attack as claimed in #Douma did, or did not, take place
Note how headlines repeat US UK France claims of #Syria chemical weapons sites as if fact
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ignoring that @OPCW declared all Syria CW destroyed in 2016, and that US UK France have since had the right to ask OPCW to inspect these sites
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