Madaya

 
 
By Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

I live in Tayr Filsey, not Madaya, and I am fine.
— Marianna Mazeh: “Starving Syria child” revealed as south Lebanon girl

Press TV – January 12, 2016 Syria’s ambassador to the UN says media reports of starving civilians in the southwestern town of Madaya have been fabricated in an attempt to defame the government of President Bashar al-Assad. “Actually, there was no starvation in Madaya,” Bashar Ja’afari told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, […]

As news emerges that the people are resorting to boiling tree leaves for sustenance, the push to resolve this issue cannot become any more critical. The Syrian people have suffered for 5 long years and the disinformation from the starvation of Madaya will only prove to create a new anti-Assad sentiment and anger in the West since the mythology of chemical weapons and barrel bombs being used on civilians have proven to be nothing but fantasy.