Automatic against the word. Powerlessness against the truth
But for what kind of "people" are all these forces fighting? Are they the “people” who organize the attacks on the streets of Damascus and other cities? Are not those who are shelling schools and hospitals? Are not those who kidnap people and use them as human shields? Even in a nightmare, there will be no dream of what will happen if at least some power falls into their hands.
This can be seen, in particular, by the example of the journalist and translator Ankhar Kochneva who was abducted in October of this year, a citizen of Ukraine, who has lived and worked in Russia for many years. Her "fault" - only that she wanted to tell the world the truth about what is happening.
Ankhar was kidnapped on October 12 near the city of Homs, where we often traveled with her, where she took journalists to show them what was happening there. Then she was forced to read the so-called “confession” based on a piece of paper, as if she worked for reconnaissance and personally participated in combat operations. Now the bandits are threatening to execute her if the Ukrainian authorities do not pay a ransom in the amount of 50 million dollars before December 13.
I would like to hope for the best, that this is just a psychological attack ... But the problem is that the militants often killed hostages, used sadistic torture on them, and used them as human shields. Anhar mentioned many such cases in her materials. Neither of which humanism in the camp of the rebels is out of the question.
As for the so-called "confessions" of Ankhar - I, as a person personally acquainted with her, can only refute all this. Of course, she didn’t work for any intelligence (otherwise who would let such a valuable person go to Homs on unsafe roads alone in the dark?) And she couldn’t take part in special operations - unless she attended them as a journalist. On the contrary, she always stressed that her weapon - WORD.
It was the word she fought with a lie about Syria. And it is precisely against the word that the rebels fight with machine guns in their hands.
I often had to report sad news about the murders and abductions of journalists by these pseudo-revolutionaries. The most terrible fact of reprisals against journalists was the attack on the Syrian news channel Al-Ihbariya studio in Damascus, when three journalists and three guards were brutally murdered - they were tied up, put on their knees and shot, and then they blew up the studio along with all the equipment. And when journalists asked one of the leaders of the so-called Syrian opposition operating in Moscow, Mahmud Al-Hamzu, how he can comment on this, he said that, they say, “the TV channel is deceitful” (and such “people” of the Arab League and “Friends of Syria "They offer to transfer power in the country!) The whole" fault "of the channel is only that its employees did (and continue to do) reports about the criminal activities of the militants, about how they mock the Syrian people. Similarly, the whole “fault” Ankhar Kochneva was in her reports, as well as in helping other journalists - Russian, Ukrainian and some other countries (only for them she was a translator, but not for officers and military who have their own staff of translators).
There are international conventions in defense of the work of journalists, who, unlike soldiers, even have nothing to fight off the murderers and kidnappers. There are conventions against torture, both physical and moral (and it is also necessary to check how exactly Ankhar Kochneva managed to achieve her “recognition”). There are, in the end, moral norms, according to which fighting with unarmed women is simply shameful for men, especially calling themselves warriors. And most importantly, is it not these pseudo-revolutionaries and their masters who advocate democracy? And democracy means freedom of speech. Now for the word can kill.
Dozens of TV channels and hundreds of other media outlets are working against Syria. Every day you can hear about the "atrocities of the Syrian government" (the actions of terrorist groups are reported by only a few). And, if automatic machines are used all the same against the journalistic word, it means that the enemies of Syria cannot win the information war to the end! This means that any word that contradicts the data of the anti-Syrian media is really dangerous for them, and they cannot fight with their word against those who speak the truth.
The fate of the journalist and translator Ankhar Kochneva reflected the whole look of this pseudo-opposition, the masks were removed, and you can see the faces of the abductors skewed with anger, their monstrous thirst for money and their powerlessness in the voice of truth.
The atrocities of the rebels against journalists, telling the truth about the events in Syria, even angered some international organizations that are committed to Western values. Thus, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said that crimes against journalists are crimes against individuals and society. She reported that 40 workers of the Syrian media were killed by terrorists (although in fact this number is even more - 80 people!) And expressed concern that violence against Syrian journalists continues.
The latest cases of the murder of journalists were the death of Nadj Asaad, an employee of the Tishrin newspaper, who was shot dead near his home on December 4, and the Basel TV journalist Taufik Youssef, who worked on Syrian television. Iranian journalists also became victims of the militants - for example, during a terrorist attack on the 3 General Staff building in September, the correspondent of the Al-Alyam television channel, May Nasser, who had a lot of material exposing the activities of these groups, was shot.
But there were also lucky times when journalists abducted by gangsters managed to return home and embrace relatives and friends. First of all, it is the release of the Al-Ikhbariya television crew, led by Yara Saleh, by the forces of the valiant Syrian army. I would like to hope for a happy outcome in the case of Ankhar Kochneva abducted by terrorists. But one thing is clear - the information industry of the West and the rebels, despite the huge sums invested in anti-Syrian propaganda, loses, if they have nothing to answer the words of journalists from a different point of view, except by violence.
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