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Russia Today: White Helmets’ are not a rescue group but an extension of jihadist militants, and should be designated a terrorist organization, Russia’s envoy to the UN argued at the presentation of evidence into the group’s wrongdoing. ”
Praised in the West as humanitarian rescue volunteers, in reality the ‘White Helmets’ work with Islamist militants in Syria, harvest organs from the victims they pretend to be “rescuing,” stage false chemical weapons and other attacks for cameras, and loot the bodies and homes of Syrians killed and injured in the war, according to Maxim Grigoriev, director of the Russia-based Foundation for the Study of Democracy.
Grigoriev presented the results of the Foundation’s research into White Helmets at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday. Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said the evidence shows the group is dangerous.
“The White Helmets deserve to be on the United Nations’ designated terrorist list,” Nebenzia said.
Rather than volunteers, almost all the members of White Helmets were paid staff, Grigoriev explained. There is also “undeniable evidence” that the group has been taking written orders from Jaysh al‑Islam, an Islamist militant group most notorious for its occupation of Douma.
It was in this suburb of Damascus that the White Helmets staged the “chemical attack” that served as the pretext for French, UK and US missile strikes against the Syrian government in April this year.
“Falsification of chemical attacks was an essential part of the White Helmets’ activities,” Grigoriev testified, adding that the group also regularly engaged in “making fake news and organizing staged rescues.”
He cited a particular example of a place called Jisr al‑Haj in Aleppo, where the militants had set trash on fire, brought bodies from the local morgue, and had the White Helmets film a staged rescue. Grigoriev cited a testimony by a member of the White Helmets, who also said that everyone involved received an extra $50 for the effort.
Many local residents interviewed for the research spoke about people “rescued” by the White Helmets ending up dead, with their internal organs missing. One of the witnesses interviewed was a former member of Ahrar al-Sham, who testified that his commander Shadi Kadik, also known as Abu Adel Al-Halabi (of Aleppo), acknowledged the organ harvesting. The total number of cases involving organ theft is “at least several hundred” in Aleppo alone, Grigoriev testified.
Instead of rescuing civilians and children, the White Helmets looted homes damaged in the fighting and bodies of the dead, while forcing the children out of schools and kindergartens to set up offices there.
“At a rough estimate, out of 26 centers operating in Eastern Ghouta, ten were located in schools and one in a kindergarten,” Grigoriev cited from the testimony of a Syrian journalist in the area.
Today a conference on the activities of #WhiteHelmets took place at the @UN. ????????Amb. #Nebenzia & ????????Amb. #Jaafari delivered their remarks. Independent researchers @VanessaBeeley, @grigorievms and Syrian journalist R.Lotef shared their findings about crimes of this NGO in Syria. pic.twitter.com/2WyWa6CrLx
— Russian Mission UN (@RussiaUN) December 20, 2018
In Eastern Ghouta alone, between 100 and 150 members of White Helmets were also members of terrorist and militant groups. They engaged in building trenches, tunnels and fortifications for the militants, openly boasting about their membership on social media, but denying it whenever they were interviewed by Western reporters.
“Facebook accounts of members of the White Helmets are full of propagandist materials of terrorist groups, including [Islamic State] and al-Qaeda, praising Osama bin Laden and other individuals listed by the UN as terrorists,” Grigoriev said, adding that the so-called rescuers also posted “hundreds of photos with weapons in their hands.”
The Foundation is a member of the Global Counter-Terrorism Research Network established in 2013 by the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. Its report is based on interviews with over 100 eyewitnesses, including 40 members of the White Helmets, 50 local residents and 15 former terrorist and militant fighters. More than 500 local residents were also surveyed in Aleppo and Deraa.
#Nebenzia: We understand why #WhiteHelmets are being defended by #Western capitals.They do not hide that they provided substantial financial support to this organization and intrumentalized it to pursue political goals under humanitarian cover. It’s logical to protect your asset. pic.twitter.com/Iuh3Rk7X10
— Russian Mission UN (@RussiaUN) December 20, 2018
A number of Western countries, such as the UK and Canada, have proudly announced they would be accepting White Helmets as refugees, after several hundred members of the group were evacuated from a jihadist-held enclave in southern Syria ahead of the advancing government troops.
The government in Damascus considers the White Helmets to be in the same category as illegal militias and terrorists.
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@Harry Haller – thank You, Sir! I’m far from perfect. Probably, thanks to my father – a Major, officer, a pilot, for education. He has always been a man of high morality, justice, and solid principles. It is transmitted either genetically or through a leather strap in childhood : )
In my turn, I want to greet all people with 25th of December, a Merry Christmas! Very beautiful and wonderful holiday! God Bless you and your families! Let all your desires and hopes to become true next year!
In Russia we are going celebrate 31dec-1jan the New Year, the Russian Orthodox Christmas on the 7th Jan,and the Old New Year (by old style calendar) on the 14th Jan.
The outing of the White Hats as terrorists masquerading as rescuers, is not the least bit surprising and fits in with the tactics used by governments in the West in the 21st century. The fact that they are being welcomed in many countries as refugees shows that urban chaos is far from over.
The revolution must be a spiritual one. Throughout history every revolution has only succeeded in replacing one evil with another. Even the fight for climate change, a tool of the Intelligence Community, is hijacking the energy and the minds of those who desperately want to account for something. The fight, if there is to be one, is an inside job. We all must turn our attentions inward, and focus on our individual home, while ignoring the sirens coming out of the organs of government, be they local, federal, or foreign. A good start would be to turn off the television, stop paying taxes, and to withdraw from the banking system. There is a legal argument for doing so. It’s aptly named, Conscientious Objection. There are communities right here in the states that are doing just this. But of course the media doesn’t report on such enterprises. If you want an idea how to begin, listen to Harold Katz Vella’s interview from December 2018. It’s available on you tube. Support life not death.
We (in Russia) got used to the fact that what is allowed to Sirius – is prohibited for the bull. Double standards in the West, like: burning and killing the police in Kiev was good (democratic), but in Paris it is bad and condemned (crime). Hope, water wears away a stone. And rising these topics will change the atmosphere in the world’s community. That’s why the pike is in the lake so that the crucian would not sleep. One day, the germs of truth will force out the entire political false weeds and new people will come with a new mindset and the world will begin to change. We are bogged down with political lies, the rights of the strong and intrigues. The world needs a new “Tehran 1943 and the Yalta Conference”. We can’t live like this.
Andy, what I cannot understand is how people can do such heinous acts. I think the real battle is good against evil. People can follow the Golden Rule or be sub-humans. What I always liked about you Andy is that you are a good person and help people understand that good people live throughout the world. Hope your Christmas is a merry one and a happy new year to you and your loved ones.
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