Amnesty International recently released a report “Human Slaughterhouse: Mass Hangings and Extermination at Saydnaya Prison Syria”
which claimed that the Syrian government executed between 5,000 and
13,000 people over a five-year period. The report is based on anonymous
sources outside of Syria, hearsay, and the dubious use of satellite
photos reminiscent of Colin Powell’s performance at the United Nations
in 2003. There is plenty of hyperbolic language like “slaughterhouse”
and “extermination” but scant evidence of the serious charges being made.
Human Rights Watch joined the fray just days later, with claims that the Syrian government used chlorine gas
against civilians fleeing Aleppo. Once again, the claims had little
evidence, just mud thrown against a wall in the hope that some of it
will stick. It is the al Nusra front which attacked the Aleppo refugees
as they struggled to get within the Syrian army lines. One day there is a
report on execution, another day chemical weapons, barrel bombs the
next day and so on. These phony organizations never mention that the
humanitarian catastrophe in Syria was brought about by western
intervention and its head chopping jihadist allies.
-- Margaret Kimberley's "Human Rights Industry Protects Imperialism" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).