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Aleppo’s Evil Humanitarians by Jan Oberg on Exposure

By Jan Oberg

Lund, Sweden, January 9, 2017

TFF Photo Story # 3


Unique photos with text from Aleppo’s Jibrin reception center for people finally liberated in Eastern Aleppo December 11-12, 2016.


Documentation of the fact that it was the Syrian authorities, the Syrian Army, Russian doctors, the Syrian Red Crescent and volunteering Syrian youth who took care of these destitute internally displaced people.


In short, the evil guys – the only ones at that – according to most Western media.


No Western humanitarian organisations were seen, neither any leading Western media.


The media have also conveniently stopped writing about Aleppo – beyond doubt a world historic event – and ignored the suffering of the innocent, non-armed victims in this crisis: the largest humanitarian crisis in the world since 1945.


The last article about Aleppo in New York Times is from December 19, about 7-year old Twitter-girl Bana and written by a marketing expert. The level can hardly get lower.


The story of Aleppo cannot be silenced.


TFF’s first two photo reports have already been seen by close to 50.000 people. There are many other eyewitness reports – all on social media, de facto barred from the mainstream media.


The attempt to ignore the historical turning point that Aleppo is and to silence on-the-ground reports will fail.


A larger truth is emerging. The moral and political failure of Western and allies’ policy since 2012 makes the story of Aleppo just too embarrassing, something neither politicians nor governments nor media want to be reminded of.


But 13 million Syrians who are in need of humanitarian help – thanks to non-UN sanctions since 1979 and the war – need a more truthful story.


And they need the world’s attention and help – to all of them and not to the politically chosen few.

By Jan Oberg

Humans in liberated Aleppo by Jan Oberg on Exposure

Unique photos with text from Eastern Aleppo’s liberation, December 11-12, 2016.


Of some of the roughly 100,000 who were finally liberated, of the real humanitarians, the transport between East and Western Aleppo – and of the military, the children, street scenes, a bread queue and the devastation of this once so beautiful, bustling city.


Photos of heart-breaking suffering and sorrow in children’s eyes but also of smiles and hope.


Photos of the fellow human beings who did not fit the general Western political and media narrative since 2011 and therefore got no attention:


– the civilians who suffered for four years from the brutal occupation under Western- and allies-backed terror groups and from the Syrian-Russian military’s defence and liberation of the city.


This is my story.


The photos are genuine, not constructed by a marketing corporation.


This story is about our handling of Syria and its people – yes the lives of 23 million people should be central.


What you see here is the consequences of arms trade, sanctions and ignorant divisions of terribly complex societies into two groups – the good and the evil.


And it is a story about Western de facto support to terrorism since the US started history’s most counterproductive war: the war on terror that has only increased the problem 80 times. 



We hate terrorists when they hit us in Europe – understandably.


But we support terrorists when they fight those “we” just don’t like.


Here are some of those – innocent fellow human beings – who pay the price of that cruel way of thinking.


I’m afraid the West has lost it. Are you?