Den systematiske tilsværtning af White Helmets
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, sit at a makeshift clinic to be treated for injuries following reported shelling by Syrian government forces, in the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria’s eastern Ghouta region, on November 17, 2017. Shelling by the Syrian regime on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, which has been besieged since 2013 and where humanitarian conditions are dire, killed at least 10 civilians, among them six children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The deaths were the result of the latest bout in an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat attacks between regime forces and the rebels holding the enclave on the Syrian capital’s eastern outskirts. / AFP PHOTO / Hamza Al-Ajweh
Den frivillige syriske redningsorganisation White Helmets har været nomineret til Nobels fredspris to gange, og den er blevet portrætteret i flere prisbelønnede dokumentarfilm. Men White Helmets har også været genstand for en massiv miskrediteringskampagne på de sociale medier. Igen peger pilen på Rusland. I en stor artikel afdækker The Guardian den russiske propagandamaskines arbejde i relation til borgerkrigen i Syrien. Føljeton ser nærmere på sagen.