[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Can you help me by sending this to the ufpj list?

Mon May 28 15:01:58 UTC 2012

Some will be interested in these reports about the Syrian situation. Note the statements of the Syrian and Russian ambassadors to the U.N. 

--mkb

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> From: Eleanor Ommani <ellieomm at optonline.net>
> Date: May 28, 2012 5:15:47 AM CDT
> To: Lotus & Albert Fong <lyfong at pacbell.net>
> Subject: Can you help me by sending this to the ufpj list?
> 
> Hi, Lotus!  
> 
> A good friend of AIFC has sent this UN presentation video to me, and I want this to get to the entire list, but since I have already sent in two emails, I am not allowed to send more today, but this is urgent that people hear this information.  Could you simply send a FYI email with the link below, so that people can hear the 'other side' of the arguments...
> 
> The entire email from our friend Jay says a lot, and it is copied below, but these people on the UFPJ list don't like me to send too many....once they took me off to silence me....but I fought to get back online....
> 
> Thank you, Lotus and i'll call you Monday.....to explain further....
> 
> http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2012/05/bashar-jaafari-syria-on-syria-security-council-media-stakeout-6.html
> 
> In Solidarity, ellie 
> Peace Through Justice!
> Eleanor Ommani
> ellieomm at optonline.net
> Co-Founder - American Iranian
> Friendship Committee (AIFC)
> www.iranaifc.com
> Working for Peace, 
> Socio-economic Justice  
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> Jay's email to me: 
> Hi,
> 
> What happened at Houla Village in Syria and its surroundings on Friday was a horrible massacre of over 100 people and the injuring of perhaps 300 more. For religious and humane reasons most of the dead have been buried. How can it be figured our what happened and who is responsible? What is the evidence?
> 
> General Robert Mood, UN Chief Military Observer in Syria and other UNSMIS military observers where able to see some of the bodies first hand. Their ongoing investigation and report could help to establish the truth. They may be accorded more reliability than the Government or the opposition. Will they accurately report what they saw and learned from their investigation? That is a challenge because they will come under great pressure to accuse one side or the other.
> 
> So far it appears that General Mood has reported that the circumstances are "murky". That many of the bodies showed signs of knife wounds and shots from close range.
> 
> You might find valuable the Syrian and Russian arguments and evidence that the massacre was in no way by the Syrian government. Here are the links to the video recordings of stakeouts at the UN on Sunday after the Security Council issued a press statement:
> 
> Syrian Ambassador Bashar al Ja'afari
> http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2012/05/bashar-jaafari-syria-on-syria-security-council-media-stakeout-6.html
> 
> Alexander A. Pankin, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federationhttp://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2012/05/russian-federation-on-syria-security-council-media-stakeout.html
> 
> These and other videos can be accessed from
> 
> http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/c/media-stakeout.html
> 
> An example of Western media coverage, already blaming the Syrian government even before any investigation, can be seen at:
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18229870
> 
> There was a different photo at the BBC site but it was from Iraq as the text below explains.
> 
> Take care.
> 
> Jay
> ==========================================
> 
> Sunday, 27 May 2012
> 
> BBC illegally uses image of Iraqi victims as propaganda against the Syrian government
> 
> Italian photographer, Marco Di Lauro, has exposed the BBC which illegally used one of his photographs taken in Iraq as anti-Syrian Propaganda on their website's front page.
> 
> Di Lauro said: "Somebody is using illegally one of my images for anti Syrian propaganda on the BBC web site front page.
> 
> Today Sunday May 27 at 0700 am London time the attached image which I took in Al Mussayyib in Iraq on March 27, 2003 (see caption below)
> 
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTcJyLwJcw0/T8KZVTrbaRI/AAAAAAAAAW4/DFiJR8meEy4/s1600/BBC.jpg
> 
> was front page on BBC web site illustrating the massacre that happen in Houla the Syrian town and the caption and the web site was stating that the images was showing the bodies of all the people that have been killed in the massacre and that the image was received by the BBC by an unknown activist. Somebody is using my images as a propaganda against the Syrian government to prove the massacre."
> 
> The original caption with the photo was:
> 
> Al Mussayyib, Iraq - May 27, 2003 An Iraqi child jumps over a line of hundreds of bodies, in a school where they have been transported from a mass grave, to be identified. They were discovered in the desert in the outskirts of Al Mussayyib, 40 km south of Baghdad. It has been estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 Iraqis had been reported missing in the region south of Baghdad. People have been searching for days for identity cards or other clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters and even children who disappeared when Saddam's government crushed a Shi'ite uprising following the 1991 Gulf War. Marco Di Lauro Photographer Reportage by Getty Images
> 
> Original photo:
> 
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTcJyLwJcw0/T8KZVTrbaRI/AAAAAAAAAW4/DFiJR8meEy4/s1600/BBC.jpg
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