Op 13 februari jl. publiceerde ik al een bericht, over de claim van Amnesty International, dat 13.000* mensen in grote hoeveelheden tegelijk werden geëxecuteerd in de Syrische Saydhaya gevangenis. Ik nam toen een artikel over gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House (ICH), geschreven door Moon of Alabama, die uitlegde, dat de hele claim van Amnesty op drijfzand was gebaseerd**.
Vandaag nog een artikel van Moon of Alabama op ICH, over diezelfde claim van Amnesty, die dit keer door de Britse ex-ambassadeur voor Irak, Peter Ford (die de bewuste gevangenis kent), totaal in de grond wordt geboord…….
Hier het artikel, dat als interview door Sputnik werd uitgezonden. Onder het artikel vindt u het hele interview met Ford (25 minuten), let wel, het is geen video, maar een geluidsbestand (van een op de radio uitgezonden interview).
Onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’:
Amnesty
Report on Syrian Prison Deaths Questioned by Ex UK Ambassador to
Syria
Amnesty
International’s latest report on mass extrajudicial killings in Syria
would not stand scrutiny, according to former British ambassador to
Syria, Peter Ford.
February
19, 2017 “Information
Clearing House”
– On February 7, the organization issued an explosive report
titled ‘Human Slaughterhouse, Mass Hangings and Extermination
at Saydhaya prison, Syria,’ alleging that the Syrian authorities
were responsible of killing 13,000 opponents of President
Bashar Assad at the Saydnaya prison on the outskirts
of Damascus.
In
an interview with Sputnik, Ford pointed out that it was
interesting how the report was coincidentally released after the
Syrian city of Aleppo was liberated by the government
forces two months ago, after successful negotiations in Astana
and as it appears that Syria is coming closer to a
political solution for the ongoing war.
“It’s
very strange after this report has been over a year
in gestation — you have to ask, why now?” He
said.
According
to the former Ambassador, there is a number of reasons why
the report puts into question the credibility of the human
rights organisation. Apart from the fact that it was based
on interviews with anonymous witnesses and doesn’t provide
a hint of evidence, those nameless sources were wrong on ‘basic
information’, and that naturally puts to doubt the veracity
of other claims.
The
retired British diplomat had visited Saydnaya numerous times as he
served in Damascus from 2003 to 2006. According
to Ford, the prison was too small to contain ten to twenty
thousand prisoners at one time, contrary to what Amnesty
said in the report.
“Ten
to twenty thousand is a fair-sized town.” He said in an
interview. “The building which I saw at Saydnaya could not
possibly accommodate more than ten percent of those
numbers.”
The
human rights group also quoted its sources as saying that
Saydnaya became the main political prison in 2011, which was
just as false.
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* Zo gedegen, dat Amnesty sprak over 5.000 tot 13.000 doden, me dunkt nogal een verschil, ‘maar goed….’
** Zie: ‘Amnesty claimt zonder bewijs 13.000 moorden middels massa executies in ‘gevangenis Assad………‘ (In de kop stond een fout: gevangenissen i.p.v. gevangenis)
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