Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Syrian rebels' indiscriminate bombardment of Damascus and Latakia: How HRW Kenneth Roth responds

As many Syrians on social media predicated, US media had not one word about the indiscriminate bombardment by Saudi-financed Syrian (m0derate, of course) rebels of Damascus and Latakia.  No worse, look how the director of Human Rights Watch reacted on Twitter: "Assad's slaughter of civilians is no excuse for rebels to fire indiscriminately on Damascus."  He always qualifies any mild criticism of the rebels and he sounds always as if he is affectionately chiding his comrade-in-arms.  So even if he wants to point out a war crime by the rebels, the focus is always on the regime.  Kenneth Roth would be a good spokesperson for the US government.  He never deviates from the talking points.