Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
described it this way weeks after US-led terror-bombing and Iraqi
ground operations began last October – long before the worst horrors
ongoing now.
US-orchestrated operations are being conducted under “conditions of absolute information blockade,” Zakharova explained.
Nothing was
done to protect, evacuate or otherwise help civilians. They’ve been on
their own in harm’s way without humanitarian or any other type aid or
consideration for their welfare and safety since last October.
Hundreds of
thousands remain trapped in the city. Others getting out risk their
lives to do it – as endangered by US terror-bombing as ISIS fighters.
In the battle
for Aleppo, Russia and Syria established humanitarian corridors –
without aid from the UN or other countries. Great care was taken to
avoid civilian casualties, why liberating the city entirely took so
long.
Moscow ceased
aerial operations in October 2016 to protect civilians, long before the
battle for Aleppo was won in late December.
The West and supportive media disgracefully portrayed a heroic Leningrad-type liberation as naked aggression.
They’re
largely silent on the rape and destruction of Mosul. What’s reported
falsely portrays liberation. Nothing about US terror-bombing mass
murder. An orchestrated coverup of reality continues.
No help was
provided for desperate city civilians, tapped in harm’s way. In months
of fighting, likely thousands were massacred, countless others injured,
hundreds of thousands displaced – by indiscriminate US terror-bombing
and ground artillery fire.
Western media are complicit by silence with rare exceptions. On March 23, London’s Independent cited local media sources, saying Thursday airstrikes on Mosul caused “230” civilian deaths.
“A
correspondent for Rudaw, a Kurdish news agency operating in northern
Iraq, said that 137 people – most believed to be civilians – died when a
bomb hit a single building in al-Jadida, in the western side of the
city on Thursday.”
“Another 100 were killed nearby. Some of the dead were taking shelter inside the homes,” according to Kurdish journalist Hevidar Ahmed, reporting from the scene of the massacre.
RT reported over
130 civilians massacred overnight in Mosul from US terror-bombing. The
death toll could be much higher. Bodies are being pulled from rubble, a
slow, arduous task.
According to a local eyewitness,
“(t)he entire neighborhood was fleeing because of missiles that hit, so people had taken refuge here.”
“I didn’t know if it was a shelter. I didn’t know we couldn’t go there. My entire family is inside, 27 people. We pulled only one of them out and don’t know about the rest. Yes, he was dead.”
Civilians
suffer most in all wars. Contempt for their agony and trauma in Mosul
and other US war theaters compounds their desperation.
Surviving is a daily struggle. Many don’t make it. Others are scarred for life.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Stephen Lendman, Global Research, 2017
Copyright © Stephen Lendman, Global Research, 2017
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