COULD IT HAVE BEEN REBEL PROPAGANDA?
Videos and photos taken after daylight broke showed eerily quiet streets full of twisted corpses. Inside ruined houses, entire families lay dead in their beds. Rows of toddlers, open-mouthed and wrapped in blankets, were laid out in morgues.
These sobering images shocked the world. But some have asked if we can really trust them. They were, after all, taken and dispersed with the co-operation of rebel forces, who are likely to have been acutely aware of their propaganda value.
Russia, which supports the Assad regime, has claimed that the attack was faked by rebels as a ‘provocation’ to force Western intervention. They and other sceptics doubt that Assad would have sanctioned an attack guaranteed to lead to such a combative response from the West, particularly the US.
President Bashar al-Assad speaking with journalists from a Russian newspaper in Damascus, Syria
President Bashar al-Assad speaking with journalists from a Russian newspaper in Damascus, Syria
Questions have also been raised about varying death tolls, as well as the veracity of footage showing victims being treated by medical staff who are not wearing protective clothing or gas masks.
Some experts have claimed that if sarin had indeed been used, doctors would surely have known better than to put themselves at serious risk of cross-contamination.
Others have raised serious doubts about reports from survivors, who described having inhaled clouds of a ‘foul-smelling’ orange-brown gas. Sarin is both invisible and odourless.
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